Glib Franko
Degree: MA Fine Art
University: Kiev Academy of Fine Art and Architecture
Graduation Year: 2011
New Blood Art Commentary
Glib Franko paints with a rhythm that moves between intensity and quiet. His canvases carry the sensation of something forming and dissolving - colour swelling, image receding, surfaces alive with their own tempo. Whether pared down to near-monochrome or filled with luminous detail, each painting carries its own resolution while keeping form and feeling in motion.
What runs through the work is a charged openness: sometimes raw, sometimes delicate, always alive to change. Franko holds painting as a living surface - buoyant, unsettled, restorative.
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Glib Franko is a Ukrainian artist, based in Ukraine. He left Kyiv for the west of Ukraine, where he is sharing his home with another young family. Artwork orders are sent through a standard DHL service and have been arriving swiftly.
Artist Statement
Glib Franko is a young artist who works with such classical artistic practices as painting and graphics, but this does not prevent the author from approaching the task in a modern way. Glib's work balances between abstract and specific plot lines of contemplation of natural landscapes and everyday situations. Particular attention should be paid to the technical experiment created by the artist, since as an artist restoration artist, he uses the philosophical discourse of this process and sublime him into a peculiar manifesto of the process of pictorial origin that has already been brought into the artistic canon through the work of such bright people and trends of the twentieth century as Jackson Pollock , Yves Klein, Together, Stockists and others. The main priority of the artist's work is spectacularity, self-sufficiency of color, a form that in turn leaves space for the audience's interpretation.
Solo Exhibitions
(2018) Aurea Mediocritas, Assortment room, Ivano-Frankivsk
(2018) "Botanicum", Art na Mur, Ivano-Frankivsk.
(2017) Bloom, Khmelnytsky Art Museum, Khmel'nitskyy
(2016) Emotion, KavaLava, Khmel'nitskyy, Ukraine
(2014) Park [Fragments], OntoArtGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
(2014) In Grey, Look IN Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Group Exhibitions
(2023) [Coordinate System], Yudian Gallery, Hangzhou, China
(2022) Shenzhen Art Week, Yudian atr gallery, Shenzhen, China
(2022) Art In The Interior, Mandarin Maison, Kyiv, Ukraine
(2021) "Chords and Diagonals. Equilibrium", MANDARIN MAISON Art Space, Kyiv, Ukraine
(2019) 58th International Art Exhibition –, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
(2018) "Localities", gallery on Proskurivska, Khmelnitsky.
(2018) "Silk Road", Art Salon Exclusive, Odessa
(2018) "Art Zone", Festival Respublica, Khmel'nitskyy
(2017) Localities, "Galleries at Proskurivska", Khmel'nitskyy, Ukraine
(2016) 25, Gallery Mobelino, Warsaw, Poland
(2015) ARTLEVEL, Contemporary Art Center "M17", Kyiv, Ukraine
(2015) Open Art Fair, Contemporary Art Center "M17", Kyiv, Ukraine
(2014) Unframed, Contemporary Art Center "M17", Kyiv, Ukraine
(2014) «Amazonia», Staryj Dwor, Warsaw, Poland
(2013) Opening of the West Wing SF-G, Gallery "Lemish", Lviv, Ukraine
(2013) “New Ukrainian landscape”, OntoArtGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Competitions, Prizes & Awards
(2018) scholarship of the State Khmelnytsky Administration
(2015) ARTLEVEL design festival
(2014) Gaude Polonia
(2012) New Ukrainian landscape
(2018) DESTIG Award Winner - Artist of the year - Europe (PAINTING)