Tatyana Binovskaya- artist

The story of one photograph. We leave a lot of photos for our whole life and only we know what stories are behind them. Today I want to distract you from my descriptions of exhibitions and meetings with artists and other interesting people and tell a little story that happened in the gallery. The story is small because it is about a little boy who came to the gallery with his grandmother. I can’t remember what the exposition was at that time and what works we pre sented this time, but I was struck by the behaviour of the child. On special high podiums, we had bronze sculptures. The boy stopped in front of one of them and stood there for a very long time. He did not succumb to the entreaties of his grandmother, who was trying to divert his attention to something else. I had to remove the sculpture from the podium and put it on the floor. For more than an hour, the baby sat next to the sculpture and selflessly stroked it and examined it from all sides. As his grandmother did...

Catalogs of the Maritime Art Gallery. Every year, starting in 1998, when the gallery passed under the wing of the Odessa port, we began to issue official catalogs. We tried to do this every year. Our friends sponsors sponsored the printing of catalogs. I realized that asking the port authorities for money to print catalogs was not a good idea. The money spent on the publication fell on the financial expenses of the gallery and it was very difficult to write off the do nated catalogs. Today I present to your attention a catalog of exhibitions and events for the year 2000. It seemed to me a good idea to leave an electronic trace in history. Каталоги Морской Арт Галереи. Каждый год, начиная с 1998 года, когда галерея перешла под крыло Одесского порта, мы стали выпускать официальные каталоги. Старались это делать каждый год. Финансировали печать каталогов самые разные наши друзья сп...

Christmas exhibition "STAR OF BETHLEHEM" Christmas is very widely celebrated in Ukraine, and our gallery did not remain indifferent to this event. The first exhibition on the eve of the holiday we organized together with the Odessa Diocese and the museum of icons of the Diocese showed a collection of its icons. The next year, the exhibition was attended by a museum of Western and Eastern art and the Odessa State Library. A museum with one of the three most significant collecti ons of foreign art in Ukraine. The museum funds about 10,000 works of art. However, only a part of the exhibits is in the permanent exhibition. For example, out of 500 paintings, only 140 are on permanent display. Our exhibition made it possible for the viewer to see works that are usually hidden from the eyes of museum visitors — these are 14 paintings and 13 icons. Odessa State Scientific Library provided 15 printed museum publications covering the period from 1791 to 1992. The Odessa D...

Official catalog "International Biennale Marina 2000" Photos are not very good, original catalogs are presented by collections of Odessa libraries and museums!