Artist News: Pasha Radetzki
Peat and Repeat congratulates Pasha Radetzki for his Future Art Award from Mozaik Philanthropy in Los Angeles for his in-situ sculpture, Portal do Sul .
Peat and Repeat also welcome four new prints of Pasha’ s work: Portal do Sul; Cloud Portal; Digitala Golden O1NE, and Love - Ego = LOV.
Portal Do Sul. South Gate. 2017/2019 (Earth Portal Series) Reclaimed timber, concrete footing, hardware, oil paint, sealant; 36" x 216" x 156"
Print available: Pasha Radetzki, "Portal do Sul", printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Matte Rag, 24 x 36 inches, signed and numbered verso, limited edition of 7 plus 2 APs.
Portal Do Sul is an environmental architectural-sculptural installation that conveys a unifying vision of the world.
It was conceived as ‘the house of nature’ that includes all and accommodates all of us without exceptions.
Evoking the reciprocal interrelationships with nature and among the visitors, Portal Do Sul serves as the threshold for personal transformation that calls into focus the ultimate unity of our existence and unlimited human potential.
Portal Do Sul was inspired by the natural environment of Sierra Do Mar region in Brazil and the façade of an old countryside house which was constructed in a vernacular architectural tradition known as pau-a-pique, where mud, straw and bamboo are used structurally to build walls.
Portal is open from the south to the north. It is a natural energy portal aligned with the Earth’s four cardinal directions.
Cloud Portal - 0 House, 2011 - 2017 (burned) printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Matte Rag, 20 x 24 inches, signed and numbered verso, limited edition of 10 plus 2 APs.
Cloud Portal (Earth Portal Series) 2011 - 2017; reclaimed timber, concrete footing, hardware, oil paint, sealant; 3x18x13 feet
Cloud Portal was literally made for the clouds, birds, butterflies, animals and people. Built from reclaimed Brazilian pine timber that was left over from the reforestation initiative calling for the removal of non-native species and the subsequent replanting of deforested areas. It was from this wood that Radetzki, built the series of Earth Portal Series of environmental structures.
Local workers were employed as their chainsaw cutting skills proved invaluable for building the structure. Cloud Portal, endured the elements for 6 years with some structural repairs, then the decision was made to burn the structure and send it with the winds..! More photos coming later ….
Love - Ego = LOV, 2019/2022, printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Matte Rag, 13 x 19 inches, signed and numbered verso, limited edition of 20 plus 2 APs.
Love - Ego = LOV Garden, 2016, printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Matte Rag, 13 x 19 inches, signed and numbered verso, limited edition of 20, plus 2 APs.
LOV Garden.
2016; medicinal herbs, flowers, seeds, seedlings, fruit trees, organic fertilizer, tempera paint, water; 147 x 163 feet
Lov Garden is a participatory environmental art initiative.
It engages the local community in learning how to design, plant and maintain an herbal flower garden and an orchard while working on a common narrative.
Radetzki devised the project as an ecological and educational art initiative where the notions of ego-less love and collaborative work are introduced through a playful artist-conceived ‘formula’: Love-Ego= LOV without ego.
The project was accomplished with great enthusiasm and we planted close to 500 medicinal herbs and flowers in the shape of an ego-less, altruistic LOV Garden. Dozens of fruit trees were also planted on the periphery and on the banks of the nearby river to prevent the erosion of topsoil.
This iteration of the Lov Garden landscape design project grew out of a local environmental necessity to prevent the erosion of the topsoil near the river and from the farming field. It required planting trees near the riverbed and all around the site. Such landscape design serves as a regenerative and protective framework for the Lov Garden’s artistic, educational and environmental pursuit.
Digitala Golden O1NE, 2013/2022, printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Matte Rag, 13 x 19 inches, signed and numbered verso, limited edition of 20 plus 2 APs.
Digitala is a neologism conceived from combining the Latin digit - finger, numeral and Sanskrit tala - palm, rhythmic, mathematical pattern in musical composition. Composing the numerals to bring social change can be one of the common definitions of Digitala.
Digitala Native Discourse:. 'mathematical ethics of the Giving': first i give - then i don't take - then i give.
Pasha Radetzki
Pasha Radetzki, born in Belarus and living in NYC for more than twenty years, produces and continues developing an ongoing series of independent field-art-work projects and art initiatives that relate to nature and spirituality taking place at geographically unique natural locations.
Radetzki has conceived and presented works worldwide that include: the Brazilian rainforest at Ilha Do Marajo, FLONA Topajosh and Sierra Do Mar; in Mexico, the Selva Lacandona jungles in Chiapas; the Osa peninsula and Talamanca rainforests in Costa Rica and Panama; Andean Puna and Isla Amantani in Peru; the Himalayan regions of Ladakh and Kashmir; Tamil Nadu, India; the Golden Triangle region of Myanmar and Laos; the Catskills region of Upstate New York and the East End of Long Island.
Radetzki took part in Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt, Manifesta 11 in Zurich, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Beijing 798 Biennial, the 4th International Photo Biennial in Moscow, and the 8th International Photo Biennial in Cordoba. He was commissioned for a number of performances, notably at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland for Manifesta 11 and for the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia. Radetzki’s works are part of private and public collections and featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue Brasil, Casa Vogue, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Forbes, Tema Celeste, and Hyperallergic.
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