Victor Maryniuk
“Live carefully”

Victor Maryniuk’s images are isolated from the outside world, they are not surrounded by objects with the distinction of time. Only white, only light. It’s just that the artist gives the images timeless, super historical features and takes them beyond the real. “It’s just wise,” says the artist himself, and convincingly proves it with his work. Looking at the images he created, you are convinced that it is so important to talk about the essential, the primary if you “live carefully”. Namely – to be attentive to the world, to see the beauty in the ordinary, and to transfer your vision to the canvas.

Victor Maryniuk

Victor Maryniuk – is the legend of Odesa nonconformists.

He belongs to the group that began its creative path simultaneously with the destruction of the socialist-realist canon. Before that, for three decades, art in the Soviet Union was isolated from the world art process. It was this group in Odesa that overcame many years of isolation. It was these artists who absorbed and assimilated all the experience of the pictorial language of the twentieth century and came through their own experience to the emancipation of art form, color, spots, lines, construction, and dynamics. It was they who created an updated, modern version of the Odesa “South Russian” school.

They were close to the “allowed” aesthetics in the USSR, which is why they rallied in an informal circle, organized apartment exhibitions, interact with like-minded people who came from abroad, and published their works in samizdat and diaspora publications, and were under constant KGB surveillance. who feared everything independent and uncontrollable.