T oday, at the beginning of XXI century, when everything seems to have been tested - all techniques, all approaches, all conceptions; when every mask seems to have been tried on - from surprised and naive (I see that this way!) to extremely experienced one (now I'll show you!), it's strange to see this artist's engravings, populated with satyrs, centaurs and other whimsical fruits of ancient people's fantasy, living amidst absolutely real stones and trees, waves and clouds! An insensitive viewer could blame the artist with «bias to classics» or «stilization»; but sensitive one, undoubtedly, would sense powerful and almost suprematic rhythm in this «classics». He would distinguish sincerity and simplicity incompatible with stilization, which tends to dress up in stranger's clothes just for the sake of disguising. In this artist's obvious unwillingness to follow any fancy trends, in his permanent and persistent return to the source of all Wonderful - to the Nature - we can hear that «Ich kann nicht anders!» of one of his personages, which separates those who «сап» from those who «cannot» or rather doesn't want to follow any fancy trends!Elements of surrealism, used by the artist as an instrument of poetic metaphor which allows him to implement his ingenuity and doubtless bias to the «games of mind», by no means conflicts with general «human» direction of his creativity. Quite the contrary: due to the synthesis of different styles the artist creates that special world of continuous transformations in which people and trees, stones and clouds exist not separately but as though spinning in the vortex of Time and Space which name is Life. This is also facilitated by tremendous melodiousness of his works - looking at his etchings you hear a music; the characters of his etchings sound like real voices naturally intertwined in the difficult musical fabric.
The classical nature and completeness of form full of life breathing which the artist is so sensible to are the most characteristic features of his style, so highly valued by numerous admirers of his creative activity.
Text by Alexandr Romanchenko
Highlights
ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ К КНИГЕ «МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ, ИЛИ ЗОЛОТОЙ ОСЕЛ»
ОФОРТ. История. Люди. События
35 000 метров по Эльбе. Вело-фото-сессия Марио Банди и Виктора Гузенюка (La Camorra)
Художник Виктор Гузенюк (La Camorra)
Victor Guzeniouk. Masters of Ex-libris by Sergey Brodovych Publisher
2nd International Ex-libris Competition Exhibition. Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts
