Ivan Marchuk

"Voice of my soul"

Ivan Marchuk is brilliant Ukrainian artist, a member of the Golden Guild of the Roman Academy of Modern Art. According to British newspaper «The Daily Telegraph» his name belongs to a hundred names of geniuses of mankind, who create a multidimensional image of the modern world, and being ahead of time, determine trends and prospects of post-industrial civilization.

It will be the second time for the artist to visit Jordan. At the iniative of the Embassy of Ukraine and H.E. Ambassador Serhiy Pasko from 13 to 15 December 2016 Jordanians visitors to the Kingdom had a chance to see some of Mr. Ivan Marchuk`s works during his first exhibition in the Middle East and African countries.

     "An eternal traveler, chained to the easel," - said of himself, Ivan Marchuk - an artist of great power and passion, huge creative intuition, the master of high art culture and the perfect painting plastics.

     Having a deep philosophic worldview, the artist creates an image that reflects the deepest shock of our days. His works - a message to the people: about peace and happiness, good and evil, life and death, about the highest ideals of love.

     Eternal themes of life – these are his themes.

50 paintings representing five of  twelve periods of creative genius of Ukrainian artist introduce the Eastern community of Ivan Marchuk ideological system that is rooted in high aesthetics. After all, the artistic heritage of the artist revealed strong reserves of folk wisdom, it seems like taken from the depths of the "golden age" of mankind. According to critics, Ivan Marchuk, digging into innocence pointed the way out of civilization dead end in Soviet times yet.

A special place at the exhibition in will Jordan be given to the works from the series named "Voice of my soul", because each painting in this series is a proverb and revelation, the formula of the universe and the key to its solution. But the works from the series "A look into infinity" will open up new and new horizons of the universe.

     In addition, visitors will be able to meet innovative "marchuk" creative method, which radically changed the views on the possibilities of creation of modern visual art. Of course, it is about a completely original technique - "plontanizm" (from the word "plontaty" – to weave, to wattle), which balances on the edge of technological and man-made, and because of the complexity of the precise performance it is hardly to be a repeated.

     

References:

     Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk - Ukrainian painter, the Artist of Ukraine, the winner of Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. Honorary Member of the Senate of the International Academy of Art (Rome). According to the British newspaper
“The Daily Telegraph” (2007) - one of 100 geniuses of our time.

     He was born on 12 May 1936 in the village Moskalivka, Ternopil region, in the family of well-known throughout the village weaver.

     1951 - 1956 years - studied at the Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts.

     1951 - 1956 years - studied at the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts.

     1965 – he moved to Kiev.

     1965 - 1968 years - worked at the Institute of Superhard Materials, Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

     1968 – 1984 years – worked at creative production studios of the Association "Artist" of the Art Fund of the USSR.

     1984 – creative work.

     1989 - 2001 – the period of emigration (Australia, Canada, America)

     The first official personal exhibition of I.Marchuk took place in 1979 in the capital of the USSR, Moscow (Hall at Mala Georgian Street).

     Taking into count Marchuk`s success in 1989, the USSR Union of Artists, without the acknowledging of the artist, took him into their ranks.

     1990 - Marchuk visited Ukraine, during which he held his first official exhibition in Kyiv at the National Art Museum of Ukraine.

     1997 - Ivan Marchuk was declared the winner of the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.

     2001 - Marchuk finally returned to Ukraine .

     2006 - The International Academy of Modern Art in Rome took Ivan Marchuk into the ranks of the "Golden Guild" and was elected an honorary member of the Scientific Council of the Academy.

     In October 2007, he was included in the British rankings "One hundred geniuses of our time" (72th place). The rankings formation was affected: a role in belief system changing, social acceptance, the power of intellect, achievement and cultural importance of each of the candidates (according to British newspaper «The Daily Telegraph).

     The artist divides his work into twelve  periods - "the twelve  of Marchuks", each of which is representing hyperrealism and abstraction, innocence and constructionism.

     The artist has more than 5,000 pieces of art and over 100 personal exhibition