The Artistic Phenomenon of Ivan Marchuk

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2008.

The film is dedicated to the creative path of the Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk.

In the video: Ivan Marchuk's works are demonstrated, the artists talk about the interpretation of the ideas and meanings embedded in the artist's paintings.

Contains a fragment of an interview with Ivan Marchuk.

Comments: editor-in-chief of the magazine "Museum Lane" Oleksandr Klymchuk; writer Oksana Zabuzhko; artist Ivan Marchuk; director of the Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush Vasyl Otkovych; artist Lyubomyr Medvid; teacher of Ukrainian language and literature (village Moskalivka in Ternopil region) Halyna Poplavska.

Reference: Ivan Marchuk (born 1936) is a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1997), founder of the author's technique of plantanism. His oeuvre includes about 5,000 works, systematized in more than ten cycles, including "The Voice of My Soul", "Shevchenkiana", "White Planet". He held more than 150 personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, was included in the rating of "100 Geniuses of Modernity" (The Daily Telegraph, 2007).