Gleam

Inner Light
Neon Installations

In his creative endeavours, Stepan Ryabchenko uses neon light to symbolically express his key concept of inner light or spiritual radiance. Searching for inner light is crucial to restoring our faith in the hierarchy of eternal values. The artist’s large-scale neon works look like large paintings with clean lines and transparent brush strokes, in which nothing is redundant or out of place.
Ryabchenko’s neon works feature vivid images and tell fascinating stories at different scales and at different levels of perception. They offer the viewer everything from individual life stories to the epic battle of The Heroes in the mythological world conceived by the artist.
A Gleam tells about hidden light ripping through the veil of conventionality. Darkness cannot overcome this light.
The New Era is a story of continuous struggle for revival. A mythological lightning dispels the darkness.
A Blessing Hand features a huge gentle hand descending from heaven like the Good News and giving Light to the earth.
Stepan Ryabchenko’s neon artworks transform the space around us and change our human perceptions. They make each individual’s world more real and give us hope that all darkness will retreat and that our revival will be everlasting.

Oleksandr Mykhed,
Writer and Curator