Tatyana Binovskaya- artist

Meeting with the head of Odessa Sea Port Now we already had two galleries and they worked in parallel, exhibitions were often opened in one and the other gallery. I had to recruit staff and pay everyone wages. My husband Radu had to leave his job and come to help me. I cannot but express my deep gratitude to my wonderful husband who, without a doubt, for a moment left his career and came to share with me all the problems of the new project. And now I can hardly imagine how we dealt with all this. Radu worked in the Maritime A rt Gallery already on Primorsky Boulevard and me on Uyutnaya.  At this time, Leonid Grigoryevich Vilensky, a wonderful person who worked at that time in the advertising department of the Odesa port, began to visit the Maritime Gallery. It was he who, one might say, provided us with the greatest chance in the history of the gallery. He talked about the gallery to the head of the Odesa port, Nikolai Panteleimonovich Pavlyuk. Radu told me that Nikolai ...

There were a lot of exhibitions in the gallery, I wrote about them in great detail in my e-book, but here I will not talk about everyone, but only some that affected me the most Alexey Mazur In summer, the first exhibition of Alexei Mazur took place in the gallery "Na Uytnoy", and in November we presented his work in the Maritime Art Gallery . Unfortunately, Lesha left us in this life. His path was bright, like a comet's flight. Here I decided to give the text of the biography of Alexei, written by his wife Irina: An unusually versatile person, Lesha Mazur was a drunkard. A drunkard in an artistic, artistic sense. He was an artist, and he loved his position very much. He liked to stagger with a crowd of admirers and drinking buddies around the city. He liked to run away from his mother and wife Ira, he liked their custody, until the last, I think, was a little son for his mother and beloved, but very difficult husband for Ira. It...

Opening of the Maritime Gallery on Primorsky Boulevard Before the presentation, we went down the Potemkin Stairs to the Sea Terminal to the St. Nicholas Church and invited the rector of the church to come and conduct a consecration ceremony for our new premises. We decided to really connect ourselves with the sea, even the priest had to be from the temple to which the sailors come before leaving for the flight. Our voyage on the new ship started the same way ... So we met Fath er Pavel, the rector of the church, not suspecting or dreaming that soon the Maritime Gallery would receive an even more beautiful new home and really remind you of a real ship, a ship ready at any moment set sail with a new exhibition on board ... I will talk about this of course, but a little later. The presentation day at the Palace of the Sailors - everything was prepared, and the guests were already beginning to descend, and then the unexpected happened ... At that time of instability in the economy ...

Maritime Аrt Gallery. Our life and a new home for the gallery. The gallery continued its work, and our patrons representing Blasco did not feel very comfortable due to the fact that they could not help the gallery. Just at that time, the company began to destroy the world's most powerful marine company in the Blasco. Of course, others in their place would have forgotten about us who need art when a real catastrophe occurs. But it wasn’t wrong, they remembered us and, moreover, realizing that it was difficult for us to struggle with the costs and increase the rent of the institute hall, we were asked to go to the building owned by the shipping company, the Palace of the Sailors on Primorsky Boulevard. Primorsky Boulevard is the very centre of the historical part of the city.  Before Radu and I visited this room. It was creepy. By this time, the remains of the Museum of Navy Veterans were located there. Imagine a musty room, with fragments of seashells, spoiled by stu...

Uytnayha. Children's art studio Now think, please! We had two Art Galleries, the Women's Club, exhibitions, non stop exhibition activities, but the galleries are not materially easier. We have to look for new forms in order to be able to pay rent. One of the forms was the opening of a summer studio for children's drawings, right in the courtyard of the Cozy. The courtyard is charming, summer, we often carried out chairs and tables, drank tea and coffee ... And around a lot of children running around the street, here came the idea of ​​an art school. The first lesson with the kids was very exciting for me, despite the fact that I received a diploma from a teacher of drawing and drawing at an art school, I didn’t have any practice and teaching methods. The group got quite large. Children in the summer in our country are exempted from classes for three months and they needed entertainment because you can’t hang around the street for days on end, but here is something ...

Maritime Gallery. King David, Shipping magazine, auction. The exhibition was supported by the Shipping magazine and its editor-in-chief, @ Víktor Denísov The first buyer in the Marine Gallery was precisely Victor Denisov. An amazing person who appeared in the gallery in the early days of its founding and became the first customer and our communication and cooperation with him continued for a very long time. Victor bought the artwork of Odessa marine painter Konstantin Zaritsky. At that time, he worked as a teacher at the Naval College or at the Water Institute, I don’t remember exactly. It was at this time that he developed the idea of ​​creating a special shipping magazine, which in the future could have many common points of contact with the activities of the Maritime Gallery. We met and by September began to prepare an exhibition - auction. Magazine "Shipping", and most importantly Victor, at that time, needed advertising. The idea of ​​his...

Children. Our girls grew up and their life was very closely connected with the gallery. We liked that in the summer they spent a lot of time on Uytnaya street. The atmosphere of such a very smart part of the city with mysterious attics, fruit trees, cats and the immediate vicinity of the sea gave their childhood a special touch. My mother lived nearby and the girls had the opportunity to walk with her to the beach. They didn’t really like to do art together with other children; freedom and courtyards were more attractive. The girls attended almost all the presentations of the exhibitions, and as I found out later, they quietly tasted the champagne prepared for the guests of the reception. They grew up with galleries. Our daughters also had the opportunity to go to the children's health resort in Malaya Dolina, where my aunt worked, for a whole month. She was the head nurse of this sanatorium. In winter, school classes occupied most of the day, so everything was perfe...

Gallery "Na Uytnoy" Celebration the Anniversary. It so happened that arranging another holiday in the gallery, namely, celebrating the gallery’s birthday, I usually did my personal exhibition. So it was this time. We celebrated the three years of our activity. Over the years, we held 28 exhibitions and showed the work of about 60 artists. At the festival, I showed my new works and portraits of artists. There were many guests who, afterwards, came with pleasure to chat with each oth er in the gallery. For us, it was a job and not very easy. Our friends- operetta artists came to congratulate us. Lyudmila Shustova sang her unusual, and maybe very significant song: "I am no friend to anyone, I'm not an enemy to anyone and I don't care what colour the flag is! I am a woman!" These words became for me a kind of motto and despite the fact that many were annoyed by the activities of the gallery on Uyutnaya and the fact that I was an ordinar...