Moving Art Night

is our glimpse into the complex theme of what it’s like to experience a gender transition.

Painting Sensations: from Cezanne to Bacon.Two-day practical workshop. Day I: we explore visual art primarily as a felt sense. Taras will do a half-hour demo of Cezanne’s concept of space. Then we will draw or paint, paying close attention to our present impulses and noticing any resistances in our actions. As each student has particular…

First exhibition of the art atelier TheoStudio featuring Taras Tolstikov and William Theodoracopulos in Patyolat, February 2017. Invited artists: Painters Palace featuring Tom Walton, Csaba Csorba-Simon, Beca Lőrincz and others.

Spatial Relations is the second personal exhibition of painter and architect Taras Tolstikov. The opening is being organized by TheoStudio in Budapest, and it will be available for visiting everyday until July. I have always been fascinated by both architectural environments and wild forces of nature. I am personally interested in experiencing various types of…

In this workshop we will focus on painting sensations as distinct from painting light or form. The paint stroke is not made to describe, illustrate, or please the eye. Rather, it goes directly onto the nervous system and constitutes a force that overwhelms our visual vocabulary and natural perception. Exercises include combining forms into novel…

Dancing with a reed animation portrays the artist’s confrontation with the inevitable. In this poetic narrative, the character engages in a symbolic battle with a reed…