Victor Orly (born Guennadi Grebniov on 20 February 1962) is a contemporary French painter, one of the major representatives of new-age impressionism, the president of cultural and art association Capitale, director of Capitale & Victor ORLY Gallery, a member of Guangdong Yuehua Painting Academy, Guangzhou, China.
He has been living and working in France since 2004. Since 2004 the artist began to use the pseudonym Victor Orly.
He started to draw at a very young age. When he was 3, he drew his first paintings on the back of two family portraits. In his school years, the artist was an author and editor of satirical comics that were broadcast in a local cinema. In 1978 he was awarded a grand prize in the regional contest of a political poster. His professional artistic activity started in 1993. In the mid-90s the artist worked on the design and artistic finish of the literary magazine "Vezha (The Tower)" and several ethnographic and literary books.
In 1996 Victor Orly participated in the contest of the project of a great coat of arms of Ukraine.
Becoming a professional painter, working on his artistic style, Victor Orly was highly influenced by Sergiy Shapovalov, Merited Artist of Ukraine, whom Victor Orly calls his main teacher. He considers Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso to be his spiritual mentors.
A peculiar feature of the painter's art is an experiment with composition, colour, technique. Victor ORLY has worked out his own style which is based on a combination of classical, symbolic and impressionistic painting elements. His brush strokes are broad and energetic, often massive, always loose, sometimes translucent, and full of emotions and feelings. His artistic language is based on an individual and poetic reception of the environment. It is colourful, elegant and, at the same time, challenging and provocative. Victor Orly is an elegant provocateur of our emotions. He has invented his own painting technique, which makes his works volumetric, polyphonic and 3-D ones.
One of the themes of Orly's artworks in recent years is Provence where he lives now. Victor ORLY is named an honorary ambassador of Provence for his special attention to this region and a fine sense of its spirit. Victor ORLY's art is light and life-affirming. His works are filled with a warm atmosphere. They are energetic and open. Victor ORLY's paintings project organic and generous optimism.
The artist’s artworks are in several museums and art academies collections in Canada, Ukraine and China. His paintings are in private collections in France, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Canada, China, the United Kingdom and the United States. There are a lot of famous people among the Victor ORLY paintings collectors: politicians, businessmen and artists. Prices for Victor ORLY's paintings have developed progressively through time. Several factors have influenced them: personal and international exhibitions, collectors and their evolution, demand for Victor ORLY's paintings and the paintings themselves with original characteristic author's style and a symbiosis of visual and energetic effects. Each price increase was fixed during the next exhibitions and art fairs. Prices are confirmed by official art experts.
Awards:
Medal of Marseille, 2013; Prize of Castellet town, 2009; 1st Prize of Castellet Grand Prix of Painting, 2007; Medal of International Art Exhibition "Nantes – Façade de Atlantic", 2006; 1st Prize, "Neptune’s Kingdom" Exhibition, 2005; Grand prize in the Kirovohrad regional contest of a political poster, 1978
Education:
* Kirovohrad arts school , Kirovohrad, Ukraine, USSR
* A.Pushkin Kirovohrad Pedagogical Institute, Kirovohrad,
Ukraine, USSR
Events:
Contest of the project of a great coat of arms of Ukraine, 1996
President of the jury for the art contest in Nans-les-Pins, France, 2008
Project "My trace on the planet" in terms of the international campaign "Marseille, European Capital of Culture", 2013
President of the jury for the art contest " Atelier of the Paul Sezanne " in Marseille, France, 2014
Project Provence Rhapsody, Marseille, 2015
Project City on the Water. Travelling throughout the World, Marseille, 2015
Project Destination Shanghai, Marseille, 2016
Project Provoking an atypical answer to a simple question, Marseille, 2016
Project Talking to a Teacher, Confession that we are looking for, Marseille, 2016
Exhibitions:
Boston International Fine Art Show(2017), Art Busan (2017, 2016), Art Amoy (2017, 2016), China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014), Guangzhou International Art Exhibition (2016, 2015), Shanghai Art Fair(2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), Shenzhen International Art Fair (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), Shanghai LuxExpo (2015, 2014), Bridge of Friendship (2014 Dubai, UAE), Art China (2014, Beijing), Beijing Art Expo (2014, 2013), Guangzhou Art Trade Fair (2014, 2013), Guangzhou International Art Fair (2013, 2012, 2011) Art Canton (2015, 2013, 2012, 2011), Art Toronto (2012), Fine Art Ukraine (2012), Art Shanghai (2012), Grand Fair of Contemporary Art (2011, Paris) and many other exhibitions in Marseille, Saint Rémy-de-Provence, Toulon, Saint Paul de Venice, Nice, Draguignan, Castellet and Nante