"The window"
30Х30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
6.11.2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression.After the first wave of Covid-19, after the quarantine, the first exhibitions in museums and galleries opened. My family and I came to the exhibition of Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Roytburd. In the background of one of his works stood my youngest son and wife. And this picture came out - my reflection on getting out of quarantine. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. The boy by the window in the car. The world is colorful even in the dark. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
"Two looking at the picture"
55Х70 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"Three scenes from the performances"
60Х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
18.11.2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression.Three of my favorite performances of one of the Lviv theaters. The quarantine ended and the theaters came out of a coma. My family and I started going to the theater. Impressions from "Alice in Wonderland", "Deer King", "Pentecost" (Pentecost) formed the basis of this work. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
"Mother"
30Х30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression.Mother with son. A work reminiscent of ancient icons. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
"Carmen"
60x70 cm, оil, canvas,
"Cleaning the nose "
30Х35 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. My wife took a picture of me with a finger in my nose during a trip to China. England and the United States are the countries I dream to visit. But to get there, you need to work, not cleaning your nose.
"Get out of the car"
30Х30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression.
"Pink hippopotamus"
30Х30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. I was returning home late at night by bus. In front of me sat a young couple in love. They slept sweetly in the cold cabin of the bus. What did they dream about? Maybe a pink hippopotamus?
"Stairway to Heaven"
30Х30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. Sometimes wonderful thoughts come at the toilet, sometimes all sorts of nonsense comes to mind, and sometimes we can feel like in heaven.
"Decommunization "
60Х70 cm, canvas, Acrylic
2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. In 2014, I witnessed the beginning of the total decommunization of Ukraine. Lenin's monuments flew off their pedestals so fast that the birds did not have time to shit on the head of the leader of the world proletariat.
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"Formula of love"
65Х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
City of love. When my wife and I were in Paris, it never came to love, because our older friend was with us in our hostel room. Therefore, love in Paris for me is associated with something black and white, surrounded by colorful dreams, in which I look for a formula for love in Paris.
"Light"
45Х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Naive art. Primitivism. Sometimes we see in black and white what is colored. And vice versa…
"Entrance exit"
50x65 cm, canvas, ACRYLIC
Entrance exit. Everything is relative. You leave the house and for you it is an exit to the outside, but for a person who enters the house from the street at the same moment, it is an entrance. These are two different, and at the same time identical halves of the same thing. Two inseparable parts that are so easily separated from each other.
"NY taxi"
60x80 cm, canvas, acrylic
Naive art. Primitivism. New York. The city I dream of visiting. I feel the rhythm of the city, I hear the noise of the streets, I see yellow taxis and I feel the insecurity of the city. Insecurity from violence, from pandemics, from environmental threats, man-made disasters. This city is like a man without underwear.
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. My childhood memories of Soviet cartoons, the 1980 Olympic games and the first Disney cartoons I saw. Then a jump in time and the beginning of decommunization in 2014. Everything was mixed in one tangle of memories and emotions.
"Decommunization, Number one"
60x70 cm, canvas, acrylic
"Alice in Wonderland"
100x100 cm, canvas, acrylic
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. One of my favorite books in my childhood. Then, as an adult, I saw the play "Alice in Wonderland" in the theater. It's so wonderful to return to childhood at least for a moment.
"2021 storming of the United States Capitol. orgasm"
60x70 cm, canvas, acrylic
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. These were shocking footage of the storming of the United States Capitol. The horned shaman in supernatural ecstasy, which will now be included in textbooks of US history, reminded me of Herostratus, who smokes not the temple of Artemis, but modern democracy.
"Sweet dreams in Egypt"
60x80 cm, canvas, acrylic
My friend was vacationing in Egypt this year and constantly posted photos from this wonderful country on social media. About a year ago my wife and I were in France and visited the Louvre. History of Egypt in the Louvre a year ago, the photo can be found this year. This layering gave the idea to create this work.
"Sasha and Dasha looking at balloon"
30x30 cm, canvas, acrylic
3.02.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. I like animals very much especially cats. What else can I say?
2.02.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. I like animals very much especially cats. What else can I say?
"Sasha and Dasha looking at abstract painting"
40x45 cm, canvas, acrylic
"Lesya Ukrainka reads "Forest Song""
60x80 cm, canvas, acrylic
15.02.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. In this 2021 we celebrate 150 years since the birth of the writer Lesya Ukrainka. I decided to paint a portrait of her with admirers of her work.
"Lesya Ukrainka - faces"
20x30 cm, canvas, acrylic
"Cat and dreams"
60x70 cm, canvas, acrylic
6.01.2021 Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. My reflection on one of my favorite operas. Georges Bizet, Carmen
"Yellow flowers"
30x35 cm, oil, canvas. 2020
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. My first experiment, as for a naive artist, with oil painting of my favorite bubbles.
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. What can a red cat dream of in February? Maybe colored dreams about spring?
"Portrait of a man similar to Serhiy Zhadan"
30x20 cm, canvas, acrylic
IN PRIVATE COLLECTION
IN PRIVATE COLLECTION
IN PRIVATE COLLECTION
"Stanislaw Lem - Oceans of Solaris"
60x80 cm, canvas, acrylic
09.04.2021.
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. In 2021 the whole world celebrates 100 years since the birth of writer Stanislav Lem. One of his most famous works is Solaris. I imagined Stanislav Lem, created by the Oceans of Solaris.
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"Lesya Ukrainka. Forest Song.
Werewolf"
60x80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
21.04.2021.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. Lesya Ukrainka and her world-famous work "Forest Song". According to the plot, one of the heroes of the "Forest Song" was turned into a werewolf. I saw the transformation of a wolf from a Soviet-era cartoon into the hero of one of the Disney cartoon characters, Goofy the dog. By the way, I once read that the image of a wolf in a Soviet cartoon was written off from a character in one of the Disney cartoons. The Soviet Union collapsed into separate states. Western culture and its heroes began to enter the post-Soviet space.
Hello, my name is Sahko Balabai and I am a naive artist from Ukraine. I started drawing at the age of 49, but I have been doing art since birth.
First the art of walking and talking, then kindergarten, then the trepanation of the skull after a bad play in the playground, resuscitation, six months in neurosurgery, then school, five or six concussions. All this was wrapped up in life in the USSR: my father was a party member, a experienced communist, my mother hated the communism. Then the dream of studying the theater and entering the Kharkiv Polytechnic by order of the party and parents: "You will wear a jacket and tie, like a normal person, and not thump around the corner, like those drunken artists and actors."
Then my student years, work on building works (I am a self-taught painter-plasterer), Barabashovo market, where I worked as a salesman and loader. During breaks, film, then photography, then video, then marriage and two children. Again camera and camera, home video and a lots of family photos and videos.
Then the beginning of the war with Russia in 2014, after the death of my father, the rude coroners who threw in a UAZ with an open board my father`s body, at the "one-two-three" and me witnessing this. Then relocate to Lviv and constant negative pictures in my mind. To get rid of them, I picked up a camera and started shooting videos in Lviv with my wife.
Then documentaries. Many of them have won awards at foreign film festivals. The Ukrainian film community did not accept our film art, considering us amateurs, although we are amateurs, because we have no special education in film production. Of all the Ukrainian film festivals, us only at the Kaniv Film Festival we were happily accepted. Then our own audio-visual projects, which we presented in Ukraine and abroad. In between filming and editing the video, I wrote poems for adults and children, wrote a few songs. Then Pavlo Gudimov with the architectural festival "Tower", the project "Angels", Levynsky…
Then covid 19 and quarantine.
The events are over, there is nothing to remove, I have started to lose my mind, so I turned to a psychologist. Finally, a slight relaxation of quarantine and again Pavlo Gudimov with the "Festival of Naive Art", where my wife Darina and I were members of the film crew…
Shooting and communicating with naive artists was a magic kick that prompted me to paint. I realized that you can not be afraid to draw and show your work to the public, even if you do not have an art education and you are almost 50 years old. I started painting on November 1, 2020.
Now more than 100 works with acrylic and oil paintings are being completed.
Fish-money
money ART(Ukrainian hryvnias),
30х40 cm, canvas, acrylic
Fish-money
money ART (Ukrainian hryvnias),
30х40 cm, canvas, acrylic
12.05.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
12.05.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
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"Sweet dreams in Egypt"
60x80 cm, canvas, acrylic
12.05.2021
Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
My dreams of a beach, a sunny day and a charming woman nearby. Although a charming woman is always there, she is my wife. Then I will dream of the beach and the sun.
"green"
60x80 cm, cardboard, acrylic
"blue"
60x80 cm, cardboard, acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
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"solomiya krushelnitska. madam butterfly"
65x80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"solomiya krushelnitska. madam butterfly"
40x30 cm, canvas, Acrylic
15.06.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. Solomiya Krushelnitska - famous Ukrainian Opera singer.
06.06.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.Solomiya Krushelnitska - famous Ukrainian Opera singer.
"Lesya Ukrainka. Forest Song.
reload of the dreams. fate"
60x80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
28.06.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. People are constantly looking for a better fate and often give up what they have. Sometimes fate plays evil, very evil jokes with us. Such is the fate of a criminal, which we would love to shoot.
"Lesya Ukrainka. reload of the dreams. still life"
60x80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"mirror"
30x40 cm, canvas on cardboard, Acrylic
17.08.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
The picture shows the Chinese character "I". The work itself is done with paint, which remains after work on the next picture. The paint was applied with the help of fingers with movements that resemble the usual removal of dirt from the fingers. Many Chinese characters "I" are also applied with similar strokes. At the end, an orange hieroglyph "I", yellow balls and the author's signature are applied with a brush.
28.06.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
I think that in "Forest Song" there was a still life from which I drew this work.
Transformation
money ART (Hryvnia ART),
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
10.05.2021.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. My own transformation. I used to stand in the market and sell various trifles for little money. Over time, I became an artist at the age of almost 50.
money fish
money ART (Hryvnia ART)
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
10.05.2021.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art. Ordinary fish from money. I like exotic fish.
Chess game
money ART (Hryvnia ART)
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
10.05.2021.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.The famous chess party Ivanchuk - Kasparov (Linares, 1991)
"still life with blue vase"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"still life with a red thread"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
19.09.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
I have seen many times when something little noticeable and weightless decides something incredibly important in situations that seemed unreal.
14.09.2021
Оutsider art. Art Brut. Naive art. Primitivism. Pop art.
"Still life with a woman lying on almost colored sofa"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
I like watching my red cat, who has been living in my apartment for 12 years. One of the favorite poses of this adorable animal is to sleep on something soft, curled up in a ball.
"fried eggs"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"Transformation"
35х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
A very simple dish, but incredibly popular in our family. Fried eggs and sausage. What could be tastier in the morning?
Outsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
The work I've been working on all year ... and it's no joke. All the paint that remained on the palette and I didn't need was NOT thrown in the trash, but collected at an improvised "art dump", then moved to the canvas with bubbles and balls. So garbage can become a piece of art, not pollute the planet ...
"christmas is attacking"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
Christmas is coming soon, and it's time to traditionally storm the supermarkets in search of something tasty and interesting to celebrate the happiest days of the year. And this is the time when carols are sung everywhere in my native Lviv - in the tram, in a cafe, on the street…
"love is..."
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
impressions
"I love Lucy "
50Х70 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Dancing woman
60Х70 cm, canvas, Acrylic
4.11.2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. The boy by the window in the car. The world is colorful even in the dark. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
2.11.2020. Naive art. Acrylic Impression. The boy by the window in the car. The world is colorful even in the dark. Colored balls are a reference to my bright childhood, where there were many colored candies, and to the childhood of my children, where we played in the pool, where instead of water there were colored plastic balls.
"Kozak Mamai"
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
"Mona Lesya"
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
"Kozak Mamai"
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
"Mona Lesya"
30х40 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
"love is..."
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"oleksa novakivskyj"
60х80 cm, canvas, Acrylic
"morning in the countryside."
80х60 cm, canvas, Acrylic
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
Оutsider art. Art Brut.Naive art. Urban naive. Primitivism. Pop art.
EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
2022 - ART NAIVA festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 - Khersonshchyna is Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2021 - international art project DIGITALART4CLIMATE at Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP26, Glasgow, Scotland
2021 - personal exhibition "Forest song. Reload of the dreams", art space at Lviv University Scientific Library , Lviv, Ukraine
2021 – exhibition “Artist atelier”, Artist`s house, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 - personal exhibition "Forest song. Reload of the dreams", art gallery "Mazurek", Lviv, Ukraine
2021 - all Ukrainian art project "Hryvnia ART", Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
2021 - all Ukrainian art project "Hryvnia ART", Rodovyd Gallery, Kolomiya, Ukraine
2021 – group exhibition "INDEPENDENCE", Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 - all Ukrainian art project "Hryvnia ART", Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 - all Ukrainian art project "Hryvnia ART", Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 - international online group exhibition, ‘Awaiting Voices’, Toronto, Canada
2021 - international online group exhibition "Be your own Hero", San Francisko, California
2021 - "Art Naif Festiwal", Katowice, Poland
2021 - international online group exhibition "Art as a Response to Mental Health 2021", finalist, Doncaster Art Fair, UK
2021 – international art project "Connect", Mykolaiv ART WEEK, Mykolaiv, Ukraine2021 – personal exhibition «Bubble dreams», Zhytomir, Ukraine
2021 – all Ukrainian art project "Lesya Ukrainka. 150 names", Kyiv, Ukraine
