Biography

He was born in 1956 in Ukraine. In 1984 he graduated from the Kyiv State Academy of Arts and quickly gained recognition both in Ukraine and Europe. His paintings are bright with the feeling of frantic, almost cosmic, yet conquered energy. Lebedynets creates his emotionally-tensed and sensationally-dynamic masterpieces, penetrated with inner fire, with the help of intensive and loud strikes of color, where he takes color and texture to the new heights. Lebedynets takes the viewer inside his artistic enlightenment and revelations, which are masterfully transformed into abstract compositions. He reveals his subjective vision of Spirituality, an unreachable world superior to Time and Reality. He describes his art as the “reality of abstraction.” His art exists independent from the visible world. In essence, he has managed to breathe new life into the tradition of European non-figurative art.

“I constantly experiment in the system of vivid harmony, and not of destruction,” states Lebedynets.

He was ranked number four of the top hundred contemporary artists in Ukraine by the national project “100 Artists: Modern and Contemporary Ukrainian Art since Independence”. He is the member of the National Artist’s Union of Ukraine since 1990.