09.01.2019
The National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery” will open on 15 January a retrospective exhibition “My Land – My Beauty”, recognizable landscapes of the national artist of Ukraine, Ivan Marchuk.
The exhibition will feature more than five dozen paintings of the author’s technique “plontanizm”, which the artist began to create since 1972. For fans, the wizard offers to view both well-known textbooks and absolutely new ones, just created. Recall the series “Landscape” is one of the 13 creative cycles known to the world of the artist.
“I enjoy improvisation, but I finish the painting to the micron. As a musician: he wrote a melody, and later it should be arranged, polished. And finally, everyone comes and exclaim: oh, what picture is already ready. No, I say, here you need to draw more than two thousand pieces. Man does not see this. But I see why. I am looking for perfection, and if I can not achieve it, I am discomforted. This is a hellish job. I write at an enormous speed: dozens of smears per second. I work in extraordinary ecstasy. Only in such a state, I manage to bring the work to the fact that it was my brand name, if not without a signature: it is a picture of Marchuk, and more draw, “- tells about his work Ivan Marchuk.
Ivan Marchuk – Ukrainian painter, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine to them. Shevchenko, who in 2007 fell into the rank of 100 geniuses of modern times, which was concluded by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. In addition, Ivan Marchuk is a member of the scientific council of the International Academy of Contemporary Art in Rome, which took him to the “Golden Guild”, which is the first case of recognition of the Ukrainian artist by an institution of this level.
You can visit the exhibition until January 31, 2019. National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery”, Kyiv, street. Tereshchenkivska, 9
Source: https://ukraineartnews.com/news/expo/u-kijevi-vidkrivajetsja-retrospektiva-pejzazhiv-vidatnogo-hudozhnika-ivana-marchuka