Made of Temples

and Flowers...

Personal

Nina Verbuk

exhibitions
1982   Museum of Local Lore

(Losova town)

  
1984  Respublican Experimental iInstitute of Vegetable-growing and Soil Science

( Merefa town)

  
1984  Artistic Union 

(Kharkov city)

 
1986  Art Gallery

( Krasnograd town)

   
1986  Schevchenko Theatre

(Kharkov city)

 
1988  Academy of Music

(Kharkov city)

 
1990  FED Plant Museum

(Kharkov city)

 

Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3

  

Artist Nina S.Verbuck
  
 

 

 

 

 

    
Nina S.Verbuk was born in Kharkov in 1949, the 10th of June.
Studies:
1960-1964. Kharkov, Repin childish artistic school
1964-1968. Kharkov artistic college
1968-1974. Kharkov Artistic-Industrial   Institute
Member of Artistic Union of Ukraine since 1989 .
Participant in many All-Ukrainian and foreign exhibitions.
Great number of her paintings were gained and now are in museums and in private collections (in Ukraine as well as in foreign countries).
Entered in Record-Book of Kharkov for the number of personal exhibitions.
  
1993 Central Lecture Hall

(Kharkov city)

1993  Organ Hall

(Kharkov city)

1994  Enlightenment House

(Kharkov city)

1995  State Museum of Arts

(Kharkov city)

1996  Museum of Arts and History

( Parkhomovka village)

1996  I.E.Repin Memorial Museum of Arts

(Chuguev town )

1996  Science and Technique House

(Kharkov city)

1996  Artists' House

(Kharkov city)

1997  Scientists' House

(Kharkov city)

1997  Korolenko Library

(Kharkov city))

1997  Stanislavsky Library

(Kharkov city)

1997 House of Nuremberg

(Kharkov city)

1997  Museum of Local Lore

( Losova town)

1998  Museum of Arts and History

( Parkhomovka village)

1998  "Art of Slobozhanshchina" (AVEC Municipal Philanthropic Fund Gallery), Architects' House

(Kharkov city)

1998  "Eckstein", Evangelical Center

(FRG, Nuremberg city)

1998  "Maestro" Gallery

(Kharkov city)

1999   Museum of History and Local Lore

( Parkhomovka village)

1999  Science and Technique House

(Kharkov city)

  2000  National Academy of Law

(Kharkov city)

2000  Museum of History and Local Lore

(Zmiyov town)

2000  "Professional" Lyceum

(Kharkov city)

2000  Scientists' House

(Kharkov city)

2000  AVEC Gallery

(Kharkov city)

2000-2001 Cristmas Exhibition "Millenium", Kharkov National University

(Kharkov city)

     
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MADE OF TEMPLES AND FLOWERS

(VISIT TO NINA VERBUCK)

 
A talented kharkovian artist  Nina Verbuck has many enthusiastic admirers. Numerous records from guest books of her exhibitions can tell about it. There are some of them:
 
- Dear Nina Semyonovna! Your exhibiiton, your paintings are as "a ray of light" in our present "dark kingdom". Your pictures are the life itself, they containe all: light, warmth, beauty. It can be said without overstatement that the sacred feeling of joy and blessing is coming from them. And your talent is worthy of admiring, indeed...
-... I brought out from Your exhibition my sole, overfilled with light. Thank you!
-... Beauty and inspiration didn't desert me for half an hour...
- ... Nina Verbuck's paintings are as oasis of calm, the harmony of soul, purity. Soft pastel tints, light haze, such near understandable faces... Almost ever they are not smiling, they are concentrated, absorbed by inner life. They are wise!
-Happiness, light, kindness flow from her pictures. My daughter is seven only, but she looked at paintings with great pleasure...
-... I'm very happy to get here. Thank you very much. And thanks to God that you are!
    
Different people write, in different manner they express their feelings and thoughts, but all of them are unanimous: works of Nina Verbuck are the joy, the life itself, the emboded dream. What could be added to these comments, sincere and artless? Only that after visiting of Nina Verbuck exhibition I supplemented the list of admirers of her bright and original talent. The natural wish rised to get to know the author of these works. And this wish was implemented. Nina Semyonovna did me the kindness and agreed for meeting and answering the questions of our editorial staff.
 
   She is looking like her works. The same purity, perfestion, clarity, the same  wrapping up, not in herself, but in that world, form where she brings to us her wonderful paintings. They are so simple as mysterious. Meticulous technique, which means a great and well-founded school ( indeed, there is not enough just one inspiration to create a masterpiece), is combined successfully with a gift of special vision, which even cannot be denoted as fantasy. She doesn't labour, she creates, and this creation brings joy, warmth, light, love - they are transfered to everybody, who ever had seen her paintings.
 
  She is generous, spontaneous, natural. She is quite open and enigmatic at the same time. Sometimes it seems to me, that there are not paintings at the walls but the windows into another worlds, and these worlds are kind, unearthly, but bright. Strangely, even dark tints are heating. And still - she is calm, somehow blissfully calm. This calmness doesn't mean an inertia but means a confidence in stability of her own place in the world, of her unity with world, and if it is so, there is no reason for alarms and hurry. It's possible to contemplate leisurely the nature, locating the slightest  nuances of colour and light. It's possible to peer in people faces for long, taking in their feelings, thoughts and moods.It's possible to meditate on elevated and imperishable things - from there, perhaps, originates her special interest to temples, in which the symbol of all sacred is concealed for all of us.
 
But her temples are not isolated from the earth. They doesn't suppress; on the contrary, they are heating us with warmth of gently light, flowing from the windows, they are harmoniously inserted into attributes of our habitual world. For creating of such compositions not only a talent was needed, but still a boldness - to combine, no, rather to join the items, which appeared as very far form each other till this moment. It was necessary to lose touch with the wall of usual conceptons and to take a step forward towars unknown. Experience proved to be fruitful and impressive. Cycle of compositions with temples appeared, where peacefully get on the ancient idols and wise cat, beautiful woman face, painted eggs - "pysanky", rosy Easter pie  - "kulich" - and many others. It seems, that this cycle isn't ended still and many new meetings and joyous discoveries are waiting for us...
 
    Thus I converse with Nina. She is sparcle - with wonderful bright, blue eyes, with blinding smile... It seems, that the space around her radiates light also. Just like her paintings. It's, probably, her natural gift, which she doesn't close inside, but generously share it with us. You feel yourself so easy with her, obviously because she is simple, cordial, considerate towards you indeed, and doesn't try to make such appearance. You are interesting her, and she is listening to you meditatively, as if absorbing all in herself. And she will understand and advise, but she won't thrust anything on you. She simply will take your essence and will know without any word, what you need.

 Yury Ivanov (fragment from essay)

 
 
 
 
     
  We hope that Yury Ivanov's lines have been a convincing addition for you to the facts about Nina Verbuck. But any words won't say more about an artist than his (her) paintings. You can see them ( Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Gallery 3.). You have also the fortunate opportunity to study here her autobiographical outline  "Following the Betlegem Star". (in Russian, to be translated soon in English)  
      
  
 
 
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