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Opening of a memorial plaque to Yuri Lutskevich (1934-2001)

There will be the opening of a memorial plaque to an artist - countryman, and the acknowledged leader of the Ukrainian neo-Baroque Yuri Pavlovich Lutskevich (1934-2001) on the building of the municipal institution "Educational Association No. 6 "Specialized secondary school I-III stages, the center of aesthetic education "Inspiration" Kirovohrad city Council Kirovograd region" to the 80th anniversary of the birthday.

Yuri Lutskevich was born on September 9, 1934 in Kirovohrad. No wonder that for the establishment of a memorial plaque a secondary school of I-III degrees № 6 was selected, because he studied in this school from 1942 to 1949.

During his studying in the circle of fine arts in Kirovohrad Palace of pioneers Y. Lutskevich studied with the honored artist of Ukraine Boris Mikhailovich Vintenko (1927-2002).

In 1951 he entered the T. Shevchenko Kyiv art high school, from which he graduated in 1953 with a gold medal and entered the Kyiv State art Institute. He graduated his studying in 1959 in the workshop of V. Puzyrkov (1918-1999).

Between the years 1959-1962 Lutskevich taught drawing and painting at the Kyiv School of applied art and drawing at KCU. From 1962 to 1965 he studied at the creative workshops of the Academy of arts of the USSR in Kyiv under the guidance S. Hrigoriev.

In 1966 Yuri Lutskevich became a member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

The master's works are kept in museums, galleries and private collections of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Croatia, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Portugal, USA and other.

Yuri Lutskevich belongs to the generation of artists that came to art in 60-ies. This period is a time of departure of the artist from the academic standards in painting. The artist had witnessed the birth of a new wave neo-Baroque searches in contemporary Ukrainian art and showed their inner dialogue with the spiritual life of the twentieth century.

Everything is written in the sensations, in all his works there is the spirit of fantasy, the attraction to the extraordinary, mysterious, and symbolic. Joy, humanity, optimism, beauty - these are the main principles, which are based on the works of famous Ukrainian painter. Tragic finds no place in the artist.

Yuri Pavlovich is a very versatile artist who equally successfully worked in different genres: still life, landscape, portrait, thematic painting, Nude, in their pure form.

Yuri Lutskevich died in June 22, 2001.

The first solo exhibition of works by Yuri Lutskevich was opened in the Kirovohrad Regional art Museum with the assistance of the artist's wife HalinaHorodnicheva in 2003. Along with the exposition of our distinguished countryman an exhibition of paintings of Halina was presented. In 2011 in the halls of the Museum there were also held exhibitions of works by Yuri Lutskevich and his wife Horodnicheva.

The initiator of the establishment of a memorial plaque to perpetuate the memory of our outstanding artists of the countryman Y. Lutskevich was Kirovograd regional art Museum. According to the request of the Museum the decision of the Executive Committee of Kirovohrad city Council on January 24, 2012 No. 56 "About the establishment of a memorial plaque to the artist-the countryman Y. Lutskevich" was made.

The author of a memorial plaque of Yuri Lutskevich is a famous sculptor, the author of many sculptures that adorn the streets of our cities and other settlements not only in our region. He is a member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine and his name is Viktor Frenchko.

On the initiative of the Museum there has already been installed a memorial plaque to Kirovohrad artists VolodymyrFedorov (1920-1986), Boris Vintenko (1927-2002), and ArcadiyMacievskiy (1931-2006) on the buildings of Kirovohrad. Therefore, this work has continued.

 

Anatoly Kimnatniy - head of Department of Kirovograd regional art Museum picture gallery Peter Ossowski “World and Fatherland"