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In the works presented in this catalog, an unusual fate, partly reminiscent of adventure novels of the happy discoveries. Spanning half a century of creative activity (from 1950 to the end of the 1990s), these wonderful - different genres, stylistically divergent - works have never been presented to the public. When moving from one shop to another, they dropped out of view of the author, every day hurrying to plein air, drink in new experiences and put them into a bright miracle of art. And recently, as if in gratitude for the tireless and selfless work, fate presented the artist and his fans an unexpected gift. Forgotten canvas unfurled from the rolls and gasped ... Today, in frames, among other masterpieces Albina Stanislavovich Gavdzinskogo, they open the remote wilderness, and therefore more exciting trails to the heritage of the Master.

Won a number of awards and recognitions, honored and People's Artist of Ukraine, the only master of the brush, after whom the museum is named in his lifetime (in Novokahovka). Patriarch and perhaps the last of the bright original talent South Russian school of painting. A. Gavdzinskomu able to capture and fulfill his "Tune for the Flute" - with soulful overtones nature of the steppe south of Ukraine, the Black Sea insinuating wave of attack, with the dusk, overcast clouds or hot summer sun, but more often, though, with a gentle flowing light haze or the quiet serene clarity of the day. The artist shows the world in its variability and charming unpretentious beauty to ordinary things, talking about a simple and most profound joy - life.

Once said Ilya Repin from Odessa chapter of South Russian artists: "Keep your Kostandi ..." - and compared it to the canvas with "small diamonds." Today, looking at the AS Gavdzinskogo and his work, can not help recalling the words.

Sophisticated colorist capable of converting light up glittering colors of nature in sparkling spray on canvas. In his painting, there is always light and at the same time the internal calibrated, polished smear fresh compositional ...
Modest, often understated, muted, colors, relaxed atmosphere in Odessa wet work, brighter - on canvas associated with Chernigov, Sedniv, but always without any "pressure", showy, ostentatious reception ... Limiting restraint - and in motive, and in the media - and that it opens up the self-restraint to the artist amazing wealth tsvetoizvlecheniya.

Nuances of tonal painting, paints impressionistic virtuoso writing creates an enchanting lightness images like butterfly wings flutter unsayable, squatting on a flower.

The fragility and transience of the outer and inner world - probably the main topic Albina Gavdzinskogo, no matter what he represented: dissolve the lilacs grow roots or storks nest, pathetic little boy or frozen red-haired girl with wide eyes, "Zimka" or summer evenings in the country. Just carefully and with great attention the artist wrote and industrial plots, the people working in the factories, in the steel shop, construction hydroelectric ... They have no false pathos, but like everyone else, that he loves and writes the artist, they are marked by lyricism and deep humanity. A viewer is undoubtedly feels ...

Vera Savchenko
art, PhD