Sergei Balenok

Sergei Balenok (Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Балянок; born on May 31, 1954, Boyarka settlement, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine) is a Belarusian graphic artist, painter, and illustrator.[1]

Sergei Balenok
Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Балянок
Born
Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Баленок

(1954-05-31) May 31, 1954
Boyarka, Kiev-Sviatoshyn Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
EducationYuriy Charyshnikov
Alma materUkrainian Academy of Printing
Known foreasel painting, book illustration
Notable work
Gentleman, The planet is being sold, A slice of memory, The bird that is drinking water of the puddle, Stroll
Styleetching
Websitebalenok.com

Biography

In 1976–1980 he studied at the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute named after Ivan Fedorov in Lviv and was taught by Yuriy Charyshnikov.[2] After graduation, he moved to Minsk.[3] He served in the army.[4] In 1987 he graduated from the Academic Arts workshops of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.[5][6]

From 1980 to 1995 he worked as an art editor in Minsk publishing houses, illustrating books and designing fiction collections.[7] From 1986 to 1992 he was the chief art editor of the publishing house “Erydan” (Minsk).[2] In 1993 he was the chief art editor of the publishing house “Belarus” (Minsk).[2] From 1993 to 1995 he was the director of the private publisher “Balenok & Co”.[2] Since 1995 he is a freelance artist.[2] Since 2011 he is a senior research fellow at the Exhibition Department of the National Center of Contemporary Arts of the Republic of Belarus too.[8][9][10][11]

He was a member of the Union of Artists of the BSSR and the Belarusian Union of Artists (1988–2004 years). He takes part in exhibitions since 1976: personal ones in 1987, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 (Minsk);[12] 1992 – Gdansk (Poland); 1995 – Eindhoven (Netherlands); 1998 – Copenhagen (Denmark); 2017 – Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia).[13][9]

Oeuvre

He works in book and easel drawing (mainly in etchings), easel paintings.[2] His compositions decorated books of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut.[1][14] Except for the decoration of the publications of Jules Verne, he does not work on commissions.[7][15]

According to the artist, art should not banal reproduce the world, its task is to create new worlds.[16] He is successful in depicting emotions, moods, sensations, feelings of any normal human being.[17]

His works are showcased in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Museum of Contemporary Fine Art (Minsk), the graphic museum of Winterthur (Switzerland), the art museums of the cities: Polotsk (Belarus), New Brunswick (USA), Rimini (Italy), Kraków (Poland), Győr (Hungary), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Munich (Germany),[7] as well as in private Belarusian (Alexandr Ivanov) and foreign collections.[18][19][20]

Criticism

Works of the artist “capture attention with both high aesthetics and slight irony of usual but seen in the unusual perspective images”, the newspaper Novy Chas invited to visit the artist’s exhibition in 2017.[21] “Balenok's works are distinctive of philosophizing, and despite the „black and white“ style, filled with the bright light of experience, deep reflections of the artist,” the radio station Belaruskaje Radyjo Razyja transmitted impressions from the artist’s exhibition in the Polotsk Art Gallery in 2016.[22]

Alisa Mikhailova in the reportage on the Belarus-1 channel from a regular Balenok's exhibition stressed that the features of abstraction, surrealism, and realism are organically put on display in the artist’s works.[23] Art critic Larisa Finkel’steyn in 2014 identified paintings of the artist as “very unexpected and lyrical, in which there is a free movement of color.”[24] At the opening of the solo exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of engraver, Belarusian art historian Natalla Sharangovich praised him with the words, “This is really a fine artist. I have been familiar with his oeuvre for many years, and he is always unpredictable for me.”[25] “The author has a rare quality for a modern creator – the ability to surprise,” Kamila Januškievič assessed the work on the pages of the magazine “Mastactva” following the results of the artist’s exhibition in 2014.[26]

Andrey Adamovich observed notes of the Apocalypse in the works of Sergei Balenok.[27] Art critic Alesya Romanyuk called his works as “the most somber ones among all seen, as they show a rotten parallel world, in whose existence you don’t want to believe, even if it is the fruit of the author’s imagination.”[27]

Personal life

He is married and has two children.[28]

gollark: A lot of social structures we have around probably came about through random chance, convenience or compromise rather than principled ground-up design.
gollark: But at most points I don't think most people went around getting to decide on exactly what their values were and building societies to best embody them.
gollark: It's probably some complex bidirectional thing.
gollark: If your ethical system is "the greatest good is maximizing the number of paperclips in existence", it's entirely sensible to try and overthrow existing society to make paperclips.
gollark: Also, guess what, "still logical to agree with" implicitly assumes some values again!

References
  1. Mikhailova, Alisa (2015-06-09). "Modern Art Museum to host meeting with Sergei Balenok today". National State Television and Radio Company of Belarus. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. Паграноўскі М. М. (1996). Балянок Сяргей Уладзіміравіч. Беларуская энцыклапедыя: У 18 т. Т.2: Аршыца — Беларусцы [Belarusian encyclopedia: 18 Vol. Vol. 2: Arshytsa – Belarustsy] (in Belarusian). 2. Minsk: БелЭн. p. 269. ISBN 985-11-0061-7.
  3. "Выстава графікі Сяргея Балянка "Цяжкае сола на саксе"" (in Russian and Belarusian). Ў Gallery. 2012-01-30. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. "Белорусы и "лица кавказской национальности"". BelGazeta (in Russian). TUT.BY. 2001-05-19. Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  5. "Будет время, заходи!" (in Russian). National Center of Contemporary Arts of the Republic of Belarus. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  6. alexandrbabushkin (2014-06-02). "Сергей Баленок (Беларусь)" (in Russian). finbahn.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  7. Романова, Саша (2006-02-20). "Сергей Баленок: И завтра тоже…" (in Russian). mixtura.org. Archived from the original on 2007-11-29. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  8. Завадская, Ирина; Мозолевский, Юрий (2018-06-01). ""Да, мы знакомы!": в минской Artel Gallery открылась выставка Сергея Баленка" (in Russian). Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  9. Павлюченко, Ольга (2016-03-11). "Размова з таварышам патэцыяльным пакупніком пра мастацтва" (in Belarusian). norina.by. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  10. Свірын, Ілья; Іваноў, Юрый (2012-12-22). "Паблік, стрыт, лофт…". Kultura (in Belarusian) (51-52 (1073-1074)). Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  11. Ропат, Вольга; Саўчанка, Аліна (2016-05-28). "Выпрабаванне мастацтва". Kultura (in Belarusian). 22 (1252). Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  12. "Персональная выставка Сергея Баленка "Кусок желтого настроения"" [Sergei Balenok's personal exhibition “A piece of a yellow mood”] (in Russian). National Center of Contemporary Arts of the Republic of Belarus. Archived from the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  13. "Балянок С. В. | Беларускі плакат" (in Russian and Belarusian). Беларускі саюз дызайнераў. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  14. Наркевіч, Іна; Ждановіч, Сяргей (2018-06-24). "Пераканаўчасць няправільнай графікі". Kultura (in Belarusian). 25 (1360). Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  15. Шкиленок, Марина (2012-01-18). "В Галерее TUT.BY открывается выставка "Случайное танго"" (in Russian). TUT.BY. Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  16. Долгих, Евгений (2011-09-09). "Неправильные рисунки и неправильная музыка" (in Russian). TUT.BY. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  17. Наркевіч, Іна (2017-06-05). "Сяргей Балянок: У мяне атрымліваецца адлюстроўваць эмоцыі, настроі, адчуванні, пачуцці любога нармальнага чалавека" (in Russian). Channel “Culture”. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  18. Губская, Ольга; Шумилин, Максим (2014-03-07). "Художник Сергей Баленок: "Иногда тень бывает и получше человека"". Журнал «Большой». Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  19. Кляшчук, Вольга (2011-08-16). "Мастак Сяргей Балянок прадстаўляе ў Мінску сваю "Няправільную графіку"" (in Russian). BelaPAN. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  20. Хадыка, Аляксей (2015-05-25). "Сяргей Балянок і сусветны мастацкі працэс. Анонс выставы" (in Belarusian). Novy Chas. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  21. Хадыка, Аляксей (2017-06-09). "Ад Рэмбранта да класічнага польскага плакату. Эксклюзівы і скандалы – выставы на выходных" (in Belarusian). Novy Chas. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  22. Козік, Таццяна (2016-01-22). "Сяргей Балянок запрашае зайсці на яго выставу" (in Belarusian). Belaruskaje Radyjo Razyja. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  23. "В музее современного искусства пройдет встреча с Сергеем Баленком" (in Russian). National State Television and Radio Company of Belarus. 2015-06-09. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  24. Гаравы, Марат (2014-08-27). "Універсальныя жыццёвыя праблемы ў графіцы Сяргея Балянка" (in Belarusian). Novy Chas. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  25. Кацяловіч, Ірэна (2014-08-29). "Чалавек у шыракаполым капелюшы" (in Belarusian). Zvyazda. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  26. Янушкевіч, Каміла (2014-09-01). "Блюз жалезнага даху". Mastactva (in Belarusian). 9 (378). Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  27. "Карціна дня: апакаліпсіс ад Сяргея Балянка". Budzma Belarusians!. 2012-04-01. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  28. "биография | bio" (in Russian and English). balenok.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
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