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Codex
Abyssus is in the lettrist vein, but the abysses
I see (or imagine seeing), make it more conceptual, and coherent - and also
funny. I look at an otherwise innocent circle or dot or a black rectangle, and
see another pit, because the small icons (many of them definitely stairs, funnels,
mazes, black rays from the underworld) interfere. The title is instructive of
course, but this work could not be replaced with its description. The main
reading pleasure comes from the fact that first I see, say, a window-like
object, drawn with childlike simplicity, then I realize that it must open to a
precipice, and I look down and start feeling dizzy. The great variety of compositions
combines with a great economy of forms. After a while I already search for
their abyss-like qualities. Expectations and impressions meet halfway. And each
page as a whole, too, has a third dimension, owing to the hand-drawn, irregular
frames. Anything with contours becomes the icon of an abyss. Some icons are even
multi-abyssed, for the sheer joy of creating danger, and escaping it (perhaps),
in the same process. If you need ideas for falling, here are many-many options,
tirelessly and playfully intuited.
Two-dimensional depth calling attention to
itself is also a joke about representation. Thanks to this wise and humorous
work, we are saved again and again by a new pit, precipice, abyss from the void
of the blank page, from the fear of emptiness. But it is always momentary only.
Who knows what comes next.
Márton Koppány
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| Volodymyr Bilyk |
Volodymyr Bilyk is a writer, translator from Ukraine.
His
works include: visual poems in the series This is Visual Poetry (2013),
CIMESA (2013), Casio's Pay-Off Peyote (2013), SCOBES (2013), THINGS
(2014), Laugh Poems (2014), Vispo Ay Ai Ay (2014), "To When Tea Ties
Hence to Wank It Too" / "Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt" in The
Chapbook 5 (2015), "Heartbeat, Footclick, Machine Gun Vocalizes" (2016),
Understanding (of language) are not enough (2016), "
His
works were exhibited on EL MARTELL SENSE MESTRE in Barcelona, The
Future is Here Again: VISUAL LANGUAGE in New York and MM/FISTHIGH in
Zaporizhia.