Галерея "На Уютной" Одеса, Украіна 1991-2000

Victor Pavlov's "The Metaphysician of Painting": "Is the living material? A living word is a wave in the air, but a word is not air or lips or vibrations of air and therefore is doubly immaterial. A painting is a material object, like lips it is a door to the world. A painting is made with paints, earth, clays, metals, organic matter, and blood. But it emits information that is weightless in itself, devoid of matter. The image of a painting - can a pathologist find it in the mass of the brain in the form of a cast, a copy? A painting emits a visual wave - a word; a hieroglyph - the nuances of its meaning. Painting is the language of any communication, the exchange of information about views on beauty and disharmony; memories of past impressions, dreams of the future and knowledge of it." And also, words confirming what I said above, so admit it, all those who believe that nastiness brings popularity, that despite the shock, Pavlov is pure, neat, and full of love...

                          Viktor Anatolyevich Pavlov (1947-2013). In 1961, he visited the art studio at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin in Moscow. In 1965, he entered the art and design department of the Odessa Technical College of Sovtorgovla (V.K. Patrov) and 2 years later, after its reorganization, he transferred to the painting and pedagogical department of the OGHU named after M.B. Grekova (Y.V. Kyrychek).  In 1971, during the diploma course, he attended the studio of 0. A. Sokolova.  In 1978-1988 monumental artist of the Odessa Art and Production Combine of the HF USSR.  Participant of "apartment" exhibitions in Odessa, group exhibitions as part of the creative group "Belyaevo 100" (Moscow), joint creative activity with V. Khrush.     Since 2007, a member of the Association of European Artists.  Participated in numerous international exhibitions.  He is i...

Everyone can probably tell their own story about coupons, but I remembered another episode that took place this year. Someone named Pirogov came to the gallery. He looked like a real young businessman, wearing a tie and speaking several foreign languages. He said: "Tomorrow, I will bring an American delegation to you, but you must definitely make sandwiches for them!?" This time coincided with the fact that there was no old money, and the new ones had not yet been received. It was precisely because of this that we were among the first to receive coupons in hand at the bank. We bought groceries, made sandwiches, and received guests, everything seemed to go wonderfully, but after they left, the album of our artists' exhibition in Japan disappeared. At that time, such a printed publication as a catalog was an incredible event. The guests came and went. There were no sales. The catalogue was gone and it was impossible to assume that one of the guests had taken it. Everyone lo...

On October 19, an unprecedented sale took place. October 19 is Sylvia's birthday and this day proved to us that Sylvia's life would be successful. On this day, Kai appeared in the gallery - a huge German in a luxurious beige floor-length coat (with a pistol on his belt). It turned out that he had somehow earned money in Ukraine and did not know what to invest it in. And the money at that time was the newly introduced coupons, paper coupons that were introduced for us instead of rubles. The country became independent from Soviet money and it was a time of transition. At the same time, I encountered legendary German punctuality for the first time in my life. Our work began at 10 o'clock in the morning, he came ten minutes earlier, but even though the gallery doors were open, he waited until 10 o'clock! Kai decided himself, or maybe someone advised him, to put meaningless pieces of paper into art. And he began to buy! First of all, he bought almost all the paintings from t...

http://binovskaya.com/2409-2/ In October, my first personal exhibition took place in the Union of Artists. My relationship with the Union developed in a very peculiar way, and it is probably worth telling about it. After graduating from college, I wanted to join the artistic life of the city, but it was difficult. The Union was a clan-like, closed organization, and it was almost impossible to get  to an exhibition or exhibit my paintings in the salon of the Union of Artists. I remember during my pregnancy (I was carrying Rada), Elena Mikhailovna Filatova (the wife of my teacher K.V. Filatov) helped me to place several small works in the salon, and having sold them and received, as I remember now 40 rubles, I was happy, this amount was a significant help in the family budget. The first exhibition that took my work was an exhibition of women artists, I painted my favorite Karolino-Bugaz thorns on it against the background of a huge full moon. The work was done in cold dark blue tones...

Нехай у нас буде душа, яка любить та захищає  все живе і допомагає всьому рости та розвиватися. Об'єднання душі і тіла та злиття з Всесвітом  - головна мета нашого вчення (Коїчі Тохей) Найголовніше не лише для художника, але й для будь-якої іншої людини усвідомити своє місце у цьому житті. І саме в наш час це стає абсолютно ясним та зрозумілим. Напевно, нарешті людство підійшло до такого етапу, а я вірю в це абсолютним чином. Той час, коли страждав у нашій країні Дюльфан, страждали і багато інших добрих людей, було дуже складно, так, просто неможливо зрозуміти, для чого і кому потрібне наше життя. Радянський лад забрав у народу можливість вірити, і всі стали невіруючими, і не дав нічого нового, крім віри в унікальність та неповторність Батьківщина – СРСР. Перебудова забрала й цю віру. Залишилися люди, одні, самі по собі - наодинці зі своїми сумнівами та страхами. Де ж тут до впевненості у собі та розумінні свого призначення? Художникам і всім талановитим людям надано велику че...

From Margarita Zharkova's article published in Odesa magazine #5-6, 1997. I will return to Margarita Zharkova's name and will definitely tell about her and our brutal city (in the attitude of the townspeople to people who made a significant contribution to the history and cultural life of the city) in my story about the project dedicated to the memory of Vera Kholodnaya, which took place in the Marine Gallery in 2001. "Two Dulfans" (I won't write about the second one - I don't know him and haven't come into contact with him, although I had no personal contact with Lucien either) The 1960s - the thaw! Young Lucien, always hungry and enthusiastic, lived two steps away from the park, on Zhukovsky Street, in a communal apartment. Their small room was always filled with books and magazines, his mother read all the latest publications, read real literature, and often responded to her son's demands for additional food: "Don't bother me, I was given P...

Gallery "Na Uyutnoy" Exhibition of Lucien Dulphan, 1992. Thanks to his wife Tatyana, Lucien Dulphan's exhibition took place. At that time, Lucien was already in America. I think that all admirers of beauty regret his departure. In Odesa, he was DULFAN! A Man with a capital letter! I remember one of the first vernissages in the city garden, when the best artists of Odesa presented their paintings there, including Adolf Ivanovich Loza, Orest Vladimirovich Sleshinsky, and, of course, Lucien Dulphan. Our girls, Sylvia and Rada, were still very small. I took them there specifically to show our famous fellow citizens. Dulphan's outrageous behavior made me regret bringing the children. Later, during my trip to America, I talked to my friends who knew Dulphan about how great it would be if he returned to Odesa, I even asked to organize a meeting with him. But they explained to me that it made no sense, he would not return, and he was afraid of returning, which was a pity, Dul...

На фото, моя племінниця Марина та Ірина Паєва, на виставці Жаб Степана Мацюка. Perhaps, it is worth mentioning those who helped in the work. Even before the gallery became a gallery, Valery Paev, at that time the head of the computing center of the Trade Union Resorts, located next door on Morskaya, approached me. He asked me to take his daughter Irina as a student. Valery Ivanovich and I were acquainted in connection with an order that I completed in the building of the center. It was a painting in the Cold Encaustic technique. Unfortunately, the painting has not survived, now villas have been built on this territory). Irochka was a very nice girl, and her father sincerely wanted his daughter to receive not only an education, but also to simply be in pleasant company. I don’t remember whether it was this year that a plump woman, Valentina, with the appearance of Valentina Tolkunova, appeared in the gallery and asked for a job. Before meeting her, I was confident in that if a person is...

Gallery, 1992. The first MARINA ON UYUTNAYA. Photos from the Opening of the exhibition "Marina on Uyutnaya", opened on July 4th have the caption: "Let's be alive - it will become a tradition"! At that time, we did not even imagine that these words would become a prophecy for us. At the time when I am writing these notes, 14 years have passed since the Odesa Marine Art Gallery not only successfully operates, but also holds an international marine biennial at the highest international level, and wins the hearts of not only Odesans but also many famous artists from all over the world. And then, in the distant 1992, we all had fun. We decorated the yard with colorful flags and the exposition itself was also placed in the yard. Everyone dressed in naval uniforms sang and danced. By the way, about cooperation with the Musical Comedy Theatre, it was the theatre that lent us the sailors' costumes, for which we were incredibly grateful. And one more detail, for the e...

Gallery "Na Ujutnoy" Representative Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It was very difficult for us to work with such a cozy location - Ujutnoy Street is located in a very beautiful place, but very far from the bustle of the city. As I have already said, we had to make a lot of effort to attract attention to the gallery. A wonderful example of a kind of advertising of the gallery was cooperation with the representative office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine, where at that time Svetlana Ivanovna was the head. She was a reasonable woman and we were able to easily agree with her, especially since it cost the representative office nothing. Periodically, one can say from month to month, we opened exhibitions there. Unfortunately, it is difficult to remember which ones now, I remember the exhibition of Matskevich???, Yuri Zilberberg, and other artists. This was another step in popularizing the art of Ukraine and Odesa in particular. Галерея "На...