May 2002
Yury Darashkevich
yury@ontariointernet.com
Yury is a 1985 graduate of Belarusian Academy of Arts. He has taken part in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Europe and America. Art works of Yury Darashkevich were acquired by museums, galleries and private collections: "National Art Museum of Belarus, "Multiple-Arte Gallery" Spain, "Museum of Contemporary Art" Minsk, "Tanja-Collection" Holland, and "Volks-Bank" Germany.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The cup is a symbol of being. It is my space, a closed, self-sufficient space and yet at the same time infinite, like a wheel, like a circle designating its edge. To create a cup means to fill it with content, to pour in life, just to turn it into a source itself, a source from which you can obtain the energy of life. The cup is a mediator, an invisible linkage between me and my inner self. It is a thing and an image, a cause and an effect, an idea and its realization, my own means of self-manifestation, thus of my being.
