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An exhibition of works “Viktor ORLY - Ambassador of Provence”

An opening of the exhibition “Viktor ORLY - Ambassador of Provence” was held on August 1, 2014 in Kirovograd Regional Art Museum.

Viktor Orly (real name: Gennady Grebnev) is a modern French artist, one of the major representatives of a new-age impressionism, the president of cultural and art association Capitale, a member of Guangdong Yuehua Painting Academy, Guangzhou, China.
The artist was born on February 20, 1962 in Kirovohrad. He graduated from Kirovohrad arts school and A.PushkinKirovohrad Pedagogical Institute. He started to draw in a very young age. In his school years the artist was an author and editor of satirical comics that were broadcast in a local cinema. When he was 16 he was awarded a grand prize in the regional contest of a political poster.
He started his professional artistic activity in 1993. In the mid-90s he collaborated with the writers, editors, such as VolodymyrPanchenko, a famous literary scholar, professor of theNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Leonid Kutsenko, a regional ethnographer, professor of the VolodymyrVynnychenkoKirovohrad State Pedagogical University. The artist worked on the design and artistic finish of the literary magazine "Vezha" and several ethnographic and literary books.
In 1996 Grebniov participated in the contest of the project of a great coat of arms of Ukraine
Becoming a professional painter, working on his artistic style, GennadiGrebniov was highly influenced by SergiyShapovalov,Merited Artist of Ukraine, whom GuennadiGrebniov calls his main teacher. He considers Claude Monet,Vincent van GoghandPablo Picassoto be his spiritual mentors.
In 2004 the artist moved to France where he began to use a pseudonym Victor Orly. In France he receives new sources for his art development. In a short time he creates several new series of works, participates in numerous prestigious exhibitions in France, Canada, Ukraine, China. In 2013 Victor Orly becomes a member of Guangdong Yuehua Painting Academy, Guangzhou, China.
In 2013 Victor Orly becomes a member of Guangdong Yuehua Painting Academy, Guangzhou, China.
Victor ORLY practices different genres of painting: still life, landscape, romantic and symbolic figurative painting. Distinguishing characteristics of his works are dashing creative ideas, highly original style, combination of real and fantastic, bright colour palette.
Peculiar feature of the painter's art is an experiment with composition, colour, technique. Victor ORLY has worked out his own style which is based on a combination classical, symbolicandimpressionisticpainting elements. The artist practices oil painting and usespalette knife technique. Original compositional findings, rich colour palette, vague details are characteristic of his art. His brush strokes are broad and energetic, often massive, always loose, sometimes translucent, and full of emotions and feelings.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Orly - cite_note-4 In China Victor ORLY is compared to kung fu master Li Xunhuan for his work with a palette knife.
Most of Victor Orly's landscapes are dedicated to water. He draws a sea, a river, a lake, a pool, an aquarium, a rain. Main objects are large lengths of seas, bays, ports, classical and modern sailing ships, lotus, water-lilies, and sun reflections. Victor Orly uses his bold and broad brushstrokes to give a feeling of live reality to water and vibrations to reflexes.
Viktor Orly also practices other forms of fine arts. He is an author of decorative panel paintings, wallpaintings, and ceramic goods. The artist created wall paintings for a Ukrainian restaurant "Korchma" (Marseille, France) and numerous private villas on French Riviera, restored and created wall paintings in the Virgin Mary bell-tower of the Holy Trinity Cathedral (Marseille).
Main theme of Orly's artworks in the recent years is Provence where he lives now. His landscapes, still-lives, figurative paintings depict the splendor of pristine Provence nature and beauty of ancient human creations. Victor ORLY is named an honorary ambassador of Provence for his special attention to this region and fine sense of its spirit.
In 2008 Orly was invited as a President of the jury for the art contest in Nans-les-Pins (France).
This artist realised a project "My trace on the planet" in terms of the international campaign "Marseille, European Capital of Culture". As a result a beautiful panel painting sized 500 x 400 cm was created.
The work of Orly are in the collections of Kirovograd Regional Art Museum, Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum,Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum, Taras Shevchenko museum (Toronto, Canada), Ling Nan Cultural Heritage Museum, (Shawan, Guangzhou, China),Shantou Academy, (China).
His works are also in the private collections of in France, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, China, Canada and the USA. Many famous and well-known politicians, businessmen and actors own his works.
The exhibition of his works on his own motherland where he is better known as Gennady Grebnev is a  long-awaited event in the cultural and artistic life of our region, because everyone was waiting and expecting it for a long time. There are also some works from the funds of Regional Art Museum and OsmerkinMemorial Museum of Art. At the opening a work “Lotus and goldfish” (2010) was presented for the collection by the author.

 

All the materials are taken from the artist’s web-site: http://victororly.info

Anatoly Kimnatniy - Head of Department of Art Gallery of Petro Ossowskiy "World and Fatherland" Kirovograd Regional Art Museum