Due to the 80th jubilee of Vladlen Vasilievich Gavrilchik, Borey decided to arrange an exhibition of his works, taken from various collections.
Vladlen Vasilievich Gavrilchik was born on November 27, 1929 in a caravansary on the road to Termez city of the Uzbek SSR. He was born to a family of the chief of a frontier post on the Soviet-Afghanistan border. He showed craving for art when he started school. In 1943 he was admitted to the Ashkhabad Art School, but after his father’s death in the Kursk battle, his step-mother sent Vladlen to the Tashkent Suvorov Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1947. Later he was a student of Leningrad Frontier Naval Academy, where he gained a diploma as a watch officer and lieutenancy. He served on the ships of the Pacific Ocean frontier fleet. In 1955 he retired and stayed in Leningrad, where he started his work in a construction bureau as a specialist in electro navigators. In 1957 began to attend classes in the art studio of Food Industry Palace of Culture. But by 1960 he was expelled “on account of formalistic manners”.
In 1970 he abandoned his career as an engineer in order to devote himself fully to the beloved art. To keep creative independence, he earned daily bread and paints working as a barge keelman, a conductor in the post office car, a newspaper’s operator, a watchman, a stoker.
In 1976 V.Gavrilchik found his final place of work as a blending station engineer in Grivtsova side-street, where he had been working for 13 years. In 1989 he received a congratulatory address from the administration due to his 60th jubilee, was given a premium of 50 rubles, and retired.
Like many other talents, Vladlen Gavrilchik did not lock himself in the world of painting. He is also known as a brilliant writer and poet.
«As an artist I never attempted to cooperate with official culture. In literature I consider myself to be the follower of Russian futurists, especially of Velimir Khlebnikov. Wrote something about one hundred poems, which make up the following cycles: «Products of the Spirit», «Drinking Affair», «Haberdashery Department», «Pediary». Wrote several plays and prose works».
The artist’s works are in the State Russian Museum, Zimmerli Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge’s collection, NY, USA, and in private collections. |
