Martynchik Walera Artist from Belarus,based in London
Martynchik Walera Statement
 
 
Biography
 
 
Zone Investigation
Non-conformist period selected works 1972-1987
 
 
Physics of the Zone
Martynchik selected works1987-1997
 
 
Metaphysics of the Zone
Martynchik Walera selected works created 1997-2007
 
 
Fauna of the Zone
Paintings , inspired by work for theatres
 
 
Flora of the Zone
 
 
Big Bangs in the Zone
 
 
Eclipses of the Zone
 
 
Inhabitants of the Zone
Old masters studies
 
 
Selected sculptures
 
 
The Zone of Delight
 
 
Works on Paper
WiseMen -drawings
 
 
Details
 
 
DRAWINGS
 
 
Selected publications
Le Cotidien de Paris, 1992, "Le mond Suspeople de Martynchik"
 
 
Contacts
 
 
In a studio
 
 

Martynchik Walera Artist from Belarus,based in London


It must be difficult for a western viewer used to liberalism, to decades of Pop Art, of artistic eclecticism, to comprehend what it was like to grow up in a totalitarian regime, grey, dangerous and above all simplistic, with the stagnation produced by banal simplification. I grew up in such a regime. My inspiration, my artistic way out of the stultifying attitudes I and others like me encountered was The Glass Bead Game(1943) of Herman Hesse, who too had been explorying a strugle of the spirit against the power of barbarism. His game, you may remember, involved using as many approaches as possible from the past, the cornucopia of cultures. As my own protest against, and escape route from, the apathy bred by malign authority , I developed a style that uses the gamut of artistic styles from the past - glazing, geometry, perspective, portraiture – together with dizzying echoes of chaos and entropy. It dips into the cultural riches of the visual arts, especially painting.
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Walera Martynchik

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