Dymchuk Gallery presents Anton Saenko’s solo exhibition Heads and Horizons. The exhibition features works from 2022 to 2025. In these works, the artist focuses on two images that appear as primary symbols of his painting.
Saenko’s heads are not traditional portraits. They do not depict a specific person, but instead serve as general representations that verge on abstraction. These heads appear as expressions of emotional states, where faces without highlights or illuminated features are present, and shapes are broken down into expressive brushstrokes. The artist refers to them as “heads of warrior-poets.” For him, this approach marks a return to his artistic beginnings, when he started by drawing heads and portraits.
The horizons also have a character of return. They have long been a recognizable motif in the artist’s work — austere, almost monochrome landscapes that reflect his own style. Here, Saienko maintains a minimalistic approach while focusing on the essence of painting. The landscapes are reminiscent of devastated spaces, which can today be easily interpreted as war zones, yet remain abstract, like symbolic boundaries.
In Heads and Horizons, these two central images are shown together, indicating both a new direction for the artist and a return to his origins. The paintings become a space where images and abstract forms, as well as presence and absence, interact and overlap.
about the author:
Anton Saenko
Born in 1989 in Sumy.
In 2009, he graduated from the Sumy Professional College of Arts and Culture named after D. S. Bortnyansky, and in 2019, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. He studied at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts and Method Fund.In 2018, he was a resident at GaudePolonia (Poland).
He is a laureate of the Shcherbenko Art Center Special Prize (2015) and the PinchukArtCentre Special Prize (2022).
He works in painting, installation, photography, performance, and land art.
He lives and works in Kyiv.