Ukrainian born artist Victor has been
developing his own art concept of Ontologic
Painting for the last thirty years. Its
evolvement had much in common with the contemporary international art movement
ZERO founded by avant-guard European artists.The artistic
interpretation of being and existence in his paintings is embedded in primary
geometrical forms and natural primordial media as sand, earth, clay, and shell
limestone. Non-objective and non-figurative compositions suggest zero plot or
narrative associated with the material world. A viewer may see either a mesmerizing
chaos, or something trying to structure. All this gives a viewer room for
multi-scale perception of the picture: a galactic world or microcosm.
Victor Cuzmenco was born in 1948
in Divizia settlement, Odessa region, Ukraine. He graduated from Moscow State
Institute of Fine Arts named after V. Surikov in 1974. Victor Cuzmenco
exhibited his works in more than 250 Moldovan and international exhibitions and
art shows. His paintings are in the funds of National Art Museum of Moldova,
CIS museums, the funds of Russian Ministry of Culture, private collections in
USA, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, Israel,
Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. His solo shows were held in Moldova (2016-2018, 2000,
1994, 1991), Korbeins Galerie – Frankfurt, Germany (1993), the Central House of
Artists, Moscow (1991). The artist was awarded the Diploma of Moldovan Artists
Union “for the best coverage of creative theme”; his art was also included in
Art Encyclopedia of Moldova.
Victor’s artworks were exhibited at such group shows as
VIII and IX International Exhibitions in Lyon Cultural Centre, France
(2002, 2003), the exhibition of Moldovan avant-guard artists in Dusseldorf,
Germany (1996), «Art-Myth-93» in the Central House of Artists, Moscow
(1993), group exhibition at Uppsala
Contemporary Art Museum, Sweden (1992), the Exhibition of creative group
“Fantom” in Ismail, Ukraine (1990), the exhibition of Moldovan artists in Aachen,
Germany (1990), group exhibition in “Art Base” gallery, Singapore (1989).
In 2019 Victor Cuzmenco was awarded the Prize of Art
and Culture Center in Bacau, Romania.
In 2020 Victor’s artworks were included in more than
10 group exhibitions of online galleries and published at art magazines in USA,
Canada, UK, and Italy. The selected paintings became award-winning and gained
Special Merit and Honorable Mention.
