"A principle thing and at the same time the main problem of RUSLAN VASKIEVIC author's strategy is in its internal controversy. It is a strange combination of his intuitive personal nonconformism and the figurative "petty-bourgeois" manner of painting. Vaskievic prefers not to mention the problem areas of national and ideological self-identification and chooses simple stylistics as a key to the simple life which has not been influenced by ideological concepts and pop mythology. At first sight, it's a refined art for the imaginary country which has overslept all visual revolutions of the last century. But it"s not as simple as that. The artist's "giving in" turns out to be an effective tool of his promotion. (...)

Where does Vaskievic live? In computer installations? In an absurd-style art? In minimalists graphics? In respectfully provocative statements by Holbein, Michelangelo and Warhol? In the tricks with old photos and magazines? Or in the games with space of his own shows? Everywhere. And nowhere. The author can run fast. Even in the trainers which are three sizes bigger. He disappears in an alley leaving puzzled audience with a handful of associations and a drafted manual on how to put them together".

Maksim Zbankou "Artist on the Run. A run in five dashes" \ "A Plan of Run"