Artist bio
Dasha Klymenko is a Ukrainian-born and Canadian-based multidisciplinary artist who has been living and working in Toronto Canada since 2005.
Dasha was born in Kharkov, where she received her art education at the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, specializing in design.
Dasha creates aesthetic and conceptual works of art in drawing, sculpture, collage, and photography that speak to the viewer about the eternal – love and life in the infinite space of the Universe.
Dasha’s artworks can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Australia and throughout Europe (England, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece)
Artist statemant
It all begins with Love. My art explores the order of the world, Life as a result, and Love as the primary element – the core according to the formula: Love = Unified Creative Energy of Life = God = Universe = Nature = Human. ( In God, I understand the supreme principle, universal across all religious denominations.)
The key pillars of my creativity emerge from the phenomena of the unconscious, allegorical expression, and romanticism as heralds of art.
At its core, my modernist art is a journey toward knowledge, a better world, mutual understanding, and essence. In the contemporary metamodern context, such a manifestation is a return to what is accessible to humanity – a unified truth.
At its core, my modernist art is a journey towards knowledge, a better world, mutual understanding, and essence. In the contemporary metamodern context, such a manifestation is a return to what is a accessible to humanity – a unified truth. I do not allow an alternative view on it, addressing its aspects as broadly as there is no other interpretation for them.
I adhere to the principle of reduction, moving from the essential to the secondary. In painting, I have forsaken realism in favor of abstraction, and then color in favor of a two-component image, where black and white become the essence, the quintessence representing my way of perceiving the duality of the world.
I create abstract expressionism with an ink pen on paper. There is no room for randomness or arbitrary excess. The pen and paper allow me to be in direct contact with the Unified Creative Energy of Life and express deep, complex, multi-component artistic messages in a precise, fast, flexible manner with maximum detail and freedom.
In addition to graphics, I create sculptures, collages, photography, and jewelry, which enable me to work with surfaces and volumes and give me the freedom to express ideas and place the necessary semantic accents.
Thus, my visual language, through symbols, constructs a cosmogony, immersing the viewer in the artistic space of love, where they come to the center of themselves and to God.