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Take a better look at these paintings.
At first glance they appear to be abstracts, but
in fact they are very, very real.
Wiadyslaw Hasior, Poland 1993
This artist has a deep understanding
and respect for the traditions of the world of contemporary
art and especially that of its founders Malevitch
and Kandinsky.
Olha Petrova, art critic.
Ukraine, 1993
...Exhibition at the Royal Scottish
Academy... The west end is enlivened by the paintings
by Ukrainian artists such as Yan Martsinkevich His
dreamy work is colorful, energetically vibrant,
owing as much to surrealism as symbolism.
"The Scotsman", Gordon Smith,
art critic, Great Britain 1993
The colors in Yan Martsinkevich's
exhibition are vibrant, wild and at the same time
bound together by solid craftsmanship. Don't try
to understand then -embrace the mystery. They are
more then just references to Miro, Kandinsky or
Malevitch. These inner worlds are crafted in the
way of a well made Narago blanket -woven dreams.
Morag Thomson, Chessels Gallery.
Scotland. 1993
Yan Martsinkevich is an Eastern
European Post-Modernist. In a very special way you
can find in his paintings a mixture of time and
space, dream of reality. They appear like psychedelic
hallucinations where pieces of the history of art
come together with glimpses of a very personal participation
in the present time.
John Peter Nilsson, art critic,
Sweden, 1995
Martsinkevich mixes abstract and
representational art in one and the same picture...
He goes back to the folk tradition present in the
Russian Orthodox church of icon painting and refers
to predecessors like Malevitch and Kandinsky.
"Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Alexander
Agrell, Sweden, 1995
Martsinkevich is one of today's
up-to-date artists looking back and taking cultural
heritage and showing it in the light of the present
day His main sources are icons, Eastern European
Modernism and the rich folk art from the East. He
is proud of being able to show his roots and simultaneously
presents his art as an escape from reality. The
dynamic, exuberant painting is a reaction against
the colorless, hopeless atmosphere in his country.
There is a rich language of symbols in the art of
Martsinkevich Much that can perhaps be overlooked
by someone not sharing his background and traditions.
It is inspired by the icon-art of folk origin and
can be both religious and profane.
... But we circle predominantly
in the postmodern sphere. His compositions are built
of facets creating on the surface a rhythmic and
expressive play that recalls Kandinsky's exuberant
colors, plain geometrical and stereometrical language
of shapes. We meet as well abstract, metaphorical
figures leading us back to Brancusi's sculptures
with oval-shaped, hybrid bodies. Martsinkevich,
with delight, comes closer to symbolism and surrealism.
"Arbetet",
Marianne Nanne-Brahammar,
art critic, Sweden, 1995
This breadth of vision, this quality
of vision for me is just a feast for the eyes. So,
I won't say, more than just: "Bon Appetit".
Charles McQueen, Royal Academy,
Scotland, 1993
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