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Happy Birthday Victor! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 17 December 2020 ~ Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To coincide with what would have been Victor Ryabinin\u2019s 75th<\/sup> birthday, a book has been published which celebrates and commemorates his life and work. Conceived, supervised and edited by Kaliningrad artist Marina Simkina, daughter of the famous Russian poet Sam Simkin, and Boris Nisnevich, author and journalist, this fascinating book contains personal memories of Victor Ryabinin and critical acclaim of his work and career from 28 of his friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Young artists! Victor Ryabinin & Marina Simkina<\/span><\/strong> (From the book Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/strong> (Marina Simkina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This 198-page commemorative anthology, which has been produced to the highest standards in full colour and landscape format, provides a valuable and affectionate insight into who Victor Ryabinin was and his unique contribution to our understanding of K\u00f6nigsberg-Kaliningrad\u2019s remarkable legacy as a place of dramatic change, an incomparable centre of culture and a magnetic hub for creative talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Victor Ryabinin ‘Assemblage’ (From the book <\/em>Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/strong>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The book contains numerous photographs capturing Victor both in creative mode and at leisure. It also incorporates examples of some of his most memorable works, presenting his sketches, drawings and paintings and includes his idiosyncratic and evocative K\u00f6nigsberg \u2018assemblages\u2019 ~ large frames in which random fragments of K\u00f6nigsberg are artistically assembled to form latter-day icons, a symbolic act which enabled Victor to explore his philosophy of universal interconnectivity, in this instance the destiny of two cultures symbiotically fused by time, place and fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also contains various extracts from Victor\u2019s phenomenal pictorial diaries, which for me are the most fascinating and thought-provoking accomplishments of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Ryabinin’s pictorial diary (From the book Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/strong><\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Victor was hardly ever without his sketch book, his ubiquitous fold-over drawing pad, in which he would faithfully and meticulously record everything that interested him. Spanning a period of 50 years, the page-a-day inclusions range from simple sketches and notes, verse and philosophic comments, often entered in a beautifully flowing calligraphic hand, typically sharing space on the same page with a bottle label, sweet wrapper or any other souvenir arbitrarily collected  from a restaurant, bar or anywhere else he had frequented on a particular day, to highly intricate and detailed drawings, mostly symbolic in nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Ryabinin’s pictorial diary (From the book Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/strong><\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each page, with its distinctively different collage, told him where he had been and what he had seen that day. It also captures his mood and artistic frame of mind at the moment of representation. Whilst functioning as a journal and being works of art in themselves,  each sketch book contains pages, and within those pages numerous stimuli, of inspirational material that Victor could use at a later date for a broader and larger canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Ryabinin’s pictorial diary (From the book Victor Ryabinin the Artist Born in K\u00f6nigsberg<\/strong><\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The range and scope of artistic expression within these journals alone demonstrate Victor\u2019s acute observation of the world in which he lived whilst revealing glimpses into his inner world, the one shaped by symbolism, in which he worked and flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Book illustrations by Victor Ryabinin<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n