Yan Yeresko was born in 1982 in Minsk, Belarus. After he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts , hin his home town he came to Hungary with his wife, Nadya Hadun and also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest in 2011.

Through lyrical and thoughtful works, these two talented artists blend the artistic and cultural traditions of their home country with their new home Hungary. Yeresko's figures are dissolving in their colorful world, composed of geometrically contrasting urban and natural scenes. The patches of effulgent paint in his emotive still lifes often conglomerate into
shapes that resemble recognizable figures, yet their existence seems incidental.

His new pictures report the end of his decorative painting period. He restricts the number of the – typically warm – colors used in one painting and mostly applies different shades of brown. For him this color expresses his feelings related to his original home, Belarus.

The empathic use of this color shows his new intention to return to his roots in cultural and stylistic sense and improve his own style, way of painting. He rebuilds from the fundament of his art while he doesn’t renounce definitively the influences which affected his earlier works. The amazed painter – who almost has lost among the countless ways and possibilities – now focuses on his inner self and personal voice.

Yan keeps rethinking his art, re-teaching and improving himself. He is motivated by his eagerness of artistic improvement and he endeavors to do a more and more ’qualitative’ art. But some of his topics are returning all the time: Yan is constantly interested in the question of tradition and common past, in the relationship of religion and artist and in the human beauty.

We see figures in each of his new works. The women pictures visualize and summarize emotions – these figures was created by the imagination of Yan. The other groups of this exhibition’s the paintings are the men portrays painted from life and the pictures of a firemen’s band which is a new, exciting subject for him.

Both the form and the content of this latter theme attracted Yan: on the one hand he finds interesting the extraordinary shape of the brass instruments which for him seem like surrealist visual items. On the other hand these pictures raise the question of the representation of power of the state. The balance of Yan’s art lies in this personal and common, local and global thinking.

The gallery hosting the exhibition bears the name of its owner, Mr Ari Kupsus, a Finnish entrepreneur living in Hungary for 11 years, whose activities in Budapest include the running of various charity programs supporting young talent both in the world of music and the fine arts. His gallery shows contemporary art in an interior comprised of early 19th-century antiques, achieving a distinct totality of ambiance.

Source: Ari Kupsus Gallery
Address: 1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor utca 23/b.