“A gun shot”

MAMSIKOV VLADYSLAV, born in 1940, Omsk – famous ukrainian painter, one of the brightest exponents of strict style and metaphysicians. He became a member of the Union of Artists since 1971. He moved to Ukraine with his parents in 1947 and entered the art school in 1956. The artist graduated from Kyiv Art Institute (National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture) where he studied under K. Trokhymenko, V. Kostetskyi, I. Shtilman (1963). He is known as the author of genre paintings, portraits, landscapes, still live, and watercolours. Vladyslav belongs to the galaxy of luminaries of the 60’s who rejected academicism in painting. He is believed to be a recognized ukrainian nonconformist, romantic and metaphysician (1960-1970s) and an unsurpassed master of tonal painting. For a long time, he lived and worked in the United States where he executed a series of paintings about America. He is very close to the themes of the artistic heritage of Hopper and Morandi. He is the member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1971). At the exhibition “Peaceful protest” (2011) held at the National Museum of Ukraine, his works were acknowledged as the most characteristic and important to the history of ukrainian art of the times of the “Thaw” and the ukrainian neo-modernism of 70s and 80s. In 90s he gets interested in contemporary art. In 2017, he held a retrospective exhibition at the Kyiv Art Gallery. In the National Art Museum viewers had the opportunity to track the main stages of the master’s work, the ones that clearly manifest European views and are devoid of any conformism. Therefore, his creative body of work is an important and solid epitome of free art which disregards political pressure from the Soviet government. Vladyslav’s works were exposed at solo and group exhibitions: 2006 (individual – Berlin), 2007, 2008 – as a part of works from the private collection of Ludmila Bereznytska in Deutsche Welle (Bonn), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany (Berlin). Moreover, in 2009, they served as a part of international fairs in the Museum of Mumok (Vienna). His works are in museums and private collections in England, the USA, Japan, Germany, Belgium and France.