Volodymyr Marchuk

Ukrainian painter (born 1953)

Володимир Павлович МарчукBorn (1953-08-27) 27 August 1953 (age 70)

Kliusk, now Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

NationalityUkrainianAlma materLviv Institute of Applied and Decorative ArtsAwardsMerited Figure of Arts of Ukraine, Meritorious Activist of Culture

Volodymyr Marchuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Павлович Марчук; born 27 August 1953) is a Ukrainian painter. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1990). Head of the Volyn Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (from 1994).^[1]

Biography

Volodymyr Marchuk was born on 27 August 1953 in Kliusk, now the Turiisk hromada of the Kovel Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.^[1]

In 1980, Marchuk graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (teachers: Teofil Maksysko, Volodymyr Ovsiichuk, Volodymyr Rybotytskyi). From then until 1994 he worked in Volyn art and production workshops.^[1]

For a long time, he was the main organizer and curator of exhibitions at the Art Gallery of the Volyn Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Co-initiator and co-organizer of a joint long-term Ukrainian-Polish icon painting plein air in the village of Zamlynnia, in the border part of Volyn.^[2]^[3] During this event, half a thousand icons were created and exhibited 75 times in Ukraine and Poland.^[4]

Works

From 1989 – participant of regional and all-Ukrainian exhibitions. Personal exhibitions – in Lviv, Truskavets (both – 2010); Chełm, Lublin, Ciechanów (all – 2013, Poland).^[1]

Creates in the fields of easel and monumental painting. His oeuvre includes works with deep symbolism and national color, in particular: landscapes, still lifes in realistic style, as well as paintings on sacred themes. Some of them are kept in the Volyn Art Gallery (Lutsk).^[1]

Main paintings:^[1]

diptychs – "Na Svitiazi" (1988), "Obrazy" (2000);
triptychs – "Sviati", "Velyka utopiia" (both – 1992); "Volyn. Narodzhennia siuzhetu", "Tryvoha", "Rivnovaha", "Dolia", "Poshuky mynuloho" (all – 1989), "Zvir zaliakuvannia" (1990), "Peretvorennia" (1991), "Povnia" (1994), "Dvoie" (1999);
series – "Rekonstruktsiia" (1988), "Nostalhiia" (2008–2015).

Awards

Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine (2017)^[5]
Meritorious Activist of Culture (2012)^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Марчук Володимир Павлович / Л. Н. Гринюк // Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс] / Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2018.
^ Марія Пилипчук (2018-07-11). "VIII Міжнародний пленер іконопису розпочався в Замлинні". Волинські новини.
^ Марія Пилипчук (2019-08-11). "Замлиння-2019: духовно-мистецький діалог країн Пограниччя триває". Волинські новини.
^ "Поєднання неба і землі: в Луцьку експонують сакральні твори митців із України та Польщі". Волинські новини. 2019-12-20.
^ Decree of the President of Ukraine from 8 листопада 2017 year № 355/2017 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Всеукраїнського дня працівників культури та майстрів народного мистецтва» (in Ukrainian)