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Melnyk Ihor

Year of birth 1985
Place of birth Stryi, Lviv region
Place of living and work Stryi, Lviv region
About myself and my artworks

The paintings of the artist Ihor Melnyk are an example of the constant creative search and unleashing the potential of various techniques. Forms that are created by the artist combine expressive form and strong, sometimes contrasting color images. Actually, thanks to this, the reflection of the richness of the pictorial language dominates in paintings, where there are melodic intonations and complex visual polyphony.

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SERIES (3)

Totem. Storks (10)

The series is dedicated to storks - birds that are the personification of national mentality and spirituality. Visual myth about being and the symbol of the soul. My totem is humanity and eternal values. Perhaps that is why the stork is associated with the image of the nationality and Ukrainians. It is a bird that lives next to people, a bird, as if reflecting us and our society, our essential nature and inner way

March cats (12)

The Burnt Cats series was created during the second coronavirus lockdown in the spring of 2022. The first warm rays of the sun warm with warmth and everything around wakes up. We take off our warm clothes and expose our bodies, and it inspires. The purring of cats and their meows, fights under the windows of the skylight - this is Spring.

from the Holiday 2022 series (20)

Paintings from the Holiday 2022 series are made on cardboard with oil and acrylic paints. Pictures about what was taken from us during the occupation and the war in Ukraine, our cities, villages, our everyday affairs, recreation for children and adults. It was necessary for everyone to reformat and reevaluate their preferences.

BIOGRAPHY
Education

2004 - Stryi Art College

2010 - Lviv National Academy of Arts

Achievements and awards

2006 - "Stryi-Сo" Art Association

2013 - National Union of Artists of Ukraine

EXHIBITIONS

Group exhibitions:

2008 - "The Premonition of the New", "He and She", Museum of Ideas, Lviv

2008 - "Wolj Sikowie" XV International Plein Air, Wolj Sikowie, Poland

2009 - "Christmas Treasures", Lviv

2009 - Sulencin XIV International Plein Air, Sulencin, Poland

2009 - "The Ways of Our Victory" Ukrainian Youth Plein Air, Rivne, Dubno, Ostrig

2009 - "Premonition of the new", "He and She", Museum of Ideas, Lviv

2009 - "Gogolowskie Drewoludy", V International Plein Air, Gzheshov, Poland

2010 - "Pre-wedding gifts from Lviv painting, icon painting", Paris

2010 - "Porocowice" XXIV International Plein Air, Poland

2010 - "Picturesque Ukraine", Kmytiv village

2010 - "Pre-wedding gifts from Lviv "Nicolas Salmeron", Madrid

2011 - "Artist's Day", Kyiv

2011 - "Christmas Exhibition", Kyiv

2012 - "Kredens" art picnic, Vynogradiv, Transcarpathia

2012 - International Plein Air "Contemporary Art", Crimea

2012 - "Christmas Exhibition", Kyiv

2012 - "Autumn Salon", Lviv

2012 - "Ukrainian - Folk Modern", Chernivtsi

2012 - ART "PARK" artistic festival of contemporary art, Moscow

2012 - "Stryi palette" I Ivan Khandon International Plein Air, Stryi

2013 - "Landscape - Anti Landscape", Lviv, Zhovkva

2013 - Creative contemporary artists, Berlin, Germany

2013 - "ART-AKT" triennale of abstract art, Chernivtsi

2013 - "All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Young Artists", Ternopil

2013 - "Artist's Day", Kyiv

2013 - "Christmas Exhibition", Kyiv

2013 - "Autumn Salon", Lviv

2013 - "Green Wave", "Artist" gallery, Kyiv

2014 - "To the Independence Day", Lviv, Zhovkva

2014 - "Artist's Day", Kyiv

2014 - "Talent Energy Fest" International Art Festival, Kyiv

2014 - "Autumn Salon", Lviv

2014 - "Spring Salon" of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Lviv

2014 - "Shevchenko and contemporaries", Self-portrait exhibition devoted to 200th birthday of Taras Shevchenko, Lviv

2014 - "With Love to Ukraine", Stryi, Lviv, Kharkiv, Kherson

2015 - Feldman Art Park International Art Festival, Kharkiv

2015 - "Abstract art" of young artists, Kyiv

2015 - "Artist's Day", Kyiv

2015 - "To the Independence Day of Ukraine for Young Artists", Kyiv

2015 - "Christmas Exhibition", Kyiv

2015 - "Autumn Salon", Lviv

2015 - "Spring Salon" of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Lviv

2015 - "To the Independence Day of Ukraine", Kyiv

2016 - "Virtuosos" Lviv Regional Philharmonic

2016 - "Artist's Day", Kyiv

2016 - "Christmas Exhibition", Kyiv

2016 - "ART-AKT", Triennial of abstract art, Chernivtsi

2016 - "Spring Salon" of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, Lviv

2016 - Quinji Memorial, Mariupol

2017 - "Christmas Exhibition", "Central House of the Artist", Kyiv

2017 - "PURE WHITE" Spivakovskyi ART EGO culture center, Kyiv

2017 - "Art-cube" artistic foundation "Free", Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv

2017 - "My Paradise on Earth", Plein Air, "Liberty" Art Foundation, Edem @ Resort, Lviv

2017 - "Cultural and artistic residence", Vinnytsia

2017 - "Autumn Salon", Lviv

2017 - "Spring Salon", Lviv

2017 - "DUNAB" exhibition of finalists of Art-Battle, "White World" gallery, Kyiv

2018 - "DUNAB" exhibition of finalists of Art-Battle, "White World" gallery, Kyiv

2018 - "Spring Salon", High Castle "Palace of Arts", Lviv

Personal Exhibitions:

2010 - "Acrilyc", Local History Museum "Verkhovyna", Stryi

2010 - "Debut", Local History Museum "Verkhovyna", Stryi

2011 - "Black and White", Museum "Folk Architecture and Life", Lviv

2016 - "Flower Vertical", exhibition space "Artmone", Kyiv

2017 - "The Inalienable", Museum of Verkhovyna, Stryi, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv

2017 - "In the presence of the dark", Church of Divine mercy, Morshyn

2017 - "Totem", "Art on Moore" gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk

2018 - "Landscape", "Art on the Moore" gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk

2018 - "Totem", Municipal Gallery of Modern Art "Lavra", Kyiv

2018 - "Garden", "ART-SHIK" gallery, Vinnytsia

REVIEWS (2) Write a customer review
Halyna Khorunga Art critic's review 11/12/2018

On the canvases of Ihor Melnyk, a tangible deep understanding of the specifics of painting as a universal technique that can be effectively used to display the idea of ​​a form. However, inspirations, which are found not only at the plot level, but also at the formative level, do not acquire the features of repetition, but the author's comprehension. Accordingly, each artwork of the author is a good example of how with the help of experiment, classical means and materials one can create a new and at the same time visually expressive form. So, the paintings of Ihor Melnyk demonstrate not only the interpretation of traditions, but also the subtle sense and application of modern principles of creating forms and technical execution.

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Angelina Lebedeva Customer reviews about the painter 11/02/2020

The artist’s artworks reproduce endless immersion in creative search, self-knowledge, unleashing the potential of various innovative techniques, experiments with a combination of traditions and a subtle interweaving of modern principles of image creation. His artistic images are a combination of expressive form and, often, contrasting color schemes. The creativity of the contemporary Ukrainian artist Ihor Melnyk is multifaceted, as is the personality of the creator. The artist's paintings convey a completely special vision of the world, the impression of what he saw, passed through sensory perception and is presented in completely new colors. Numerous abstract images of flowers, clear and at the same time dynamic compositions, expression, work with light shadow modeling, silhouette. The artist’s work is permeated through symbolism through, this is what is read in the plots.

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Halyna Khorunga Art critic's review 11/12/2018

On the canvases of Ihor Melnyk, a tangible deep understanding of the specifics of painting as a universal technique that can be effectively used to display the idea of ​​a form. However, inspirations, which are found not only at the plot level, but also at the formative level, do not acquire the features of repetition, but the author's comprehension. Accordingly, each artwork of the author is a good example of how with the help of experiment, classical means and materials one can create a new and at the same time visually expressive form. So, the paintings of Ihor Melnyk demonstrate not only the interpretation of traditions, but also the subtle sense and application of modern principles of creating forms and technical execution.

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Angelina Lebedeva Customer reviews about the painter 11/02/2020

The artist’s artworks reproduce endless immersion in creative search, self-knowledge, unleashing the potential of various innovative techniques, experiments with a combination of traditions and a subtle interweaving of modern principles of image creation. His artistic images are a combination of expressive form and, often, contrasting color schemes. The creativity of the contemporary Ukrainian artist Ihor Melnyk is multifaceted, as is the personality of the creator. The artist's paintings convey a completely special vision of the world, the impression of what he saw, passed through sensory perception and is presented in completely new colors. Numerous abstract images of flowers, clear and at the same time dynamic compositions, expression, work with light shadow modeling, silhouette. The artist’s work is permeated through symbolism through, this is what is read in the plots.

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