The Dining As Art Collection prides itself on creating a dining experience that's truly a masterpiece, and our rotating art exhibits at Bistango and Bayside are some of the most important ingredients.
Part of what makes your experience at Bayside and Bistango so unique is the art that surrounds you. The cutting edge vision of the artists selected adds a strong sense of cache and sophistication to the restaurants. The art that is featured is changed and works by new artists or groups of artists is displayed every three months. The works are selected by our curator, Antoinette Sullivan of StudioGallery, who has been working with Bistango for almost 20 years, is an unconventional gallery that strives to link art with people, showcasing national and international, young and emerging as well as established artists. Throughout the three-month period, the art is available to guests for purchase.
Currently showing at Bayside: SLAVA TCH The artwork of Canadian residents, Viatcheslav and Natalia Tchistilines, known as SLAVA TCH, will be displayed at Bayside from March 7th., to June 13th., 2009.
Viatcheslav Tchistiline was born and raised in Russia. He earned his Master's degree in Commercial and Industrial Design from the prestigious Kharkiv State Institute of Arts and Industrial Design in Ukraine, where he met his wife Natalia, a Ukrainian citizen attending the Institute to earn a Master's Degree in Commercial and Industrial Art-Artistic Design.
The Tchistilines immigrated to Canada where they established the business identity:
SLAVA TCH, which is an amalgamation of two concepts that form the basis of Viatcheslav ane Natalia's art: Slava, the Russian word for glory and TCH, an acronym for Tone, Color and Harmony. Taken as a whole, SLAVA TCH stands for the Glory of Tone, Color and Harmony.
In earlier works, they painted with oil on canvas in realistic manner. After moving to Canada, their work became heavily influenced by an archaic technique called encaustic painting.
Encaustic painting flourished between the second and ninth centuries A. D. and involves mixing paint pigments heated or burned in with melted beeswax. This traditional style creates a three dimensional painting with brilliant luminous colors.
SLAVA TCH
Viatcheslav And Natalia Tchistilines
"The Song of Happy Memories"
48"x34" Encaustic on canvas
moadesign.com