Art Victory Gallery presents “Art Without Limits”, a live artistic experience featuring artists Denys Dytnyuk and Rafael who will perform an exclusive Live Speed Painting Show in an evening devoted to creativity, emotion and contemporary art.
The event will take place on Friday, 18 September 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at Hotel Guadalpin Marbella, located at Av. Bulevares Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, 19, Marbella.
An evening to enjoy live art, meet the artists, discover exclusive works and share cocktails in an elegant networking atmosphere.
Rafael (Marbella, 2013)
Endowed with a graphic skill far beyond his years, Rafael views the act of painting as a playful puzzle, in which artistic tastes and personal experiences take turns influencing his evocative power, which is unmistakably reflected in his paintings. His avowed preference for certain modernist masters, such as Picasso, Dalí and Munch, combined with his daring use of certain Baroque and Mannerist techniques (Velázquez and El Greco appear not only as recurring references but also as compositional solutions), provides him with an iconographic repertoire in which he feels at ease due to its diversity and expressive possibilities. The gallery of ‘characters’ that populate his acrylics (often large-scale) coexist beyond any hierarchy or provenance, whether in free interpretations (‘Saturn Devouring His Son’) or speculative ones (‘A Troubling Situation’). Caught off guard or posing proudly, these figures—who are always looking at us and engaging us—dominate the entire composition; they are set against neutral backgrounds or illusionist spaces and display a colour palette that undoubtedly refers to their models, but also to an inner drive of optimism and vitality. Such an approach reminds us of Matisse’s theory (whose influence we also observe in terms of colour and line) that ‘if there is order and clarity in the painting, it means that this same order and clarity existed in the artist’s mind’; a truly admirable quality for a young painter, Rafael, aged just 13.
Dytyniuk (Ukraine, 1981)
Perhaps without realising it, Denys Dytyniuk follows to the letter Leonardo da Vinci’s advice that, if we wish to convince an audience, we must accompany our words with gestures of the arms and hands. A veritable pantomime that fits perfectly into our society of spectacle, eager for new and striking forms of expression (McLuhan was right: the medium is the message, today more than ever). A message that is not conveyed through words but through pictorial action, formulated quickly, directly and with dramatic effect. In fact, his self-proclaimed ‘Live speed painting show’ transcends the boundaries of traditional painting and turns out to be a multimedia event, on the fringes of a distinct trend (Pop? Urban art?), where creativity displays all its emphatic power, whilst also reviving, incidentally, a certain mythical image of the artist as a genius, gripped by ‘divine inspiration’. But such performative strategies must not distract us from the main point: a proven mastery of the art of portraiture, whereby one or both hands (sometimes working in unison) swiftly capture the individual features and, naturally, the likeness to the model. It is worth mentioning that the subject, present throughout the process (or rather, the ‘performance’), never catches a glimpse of the physical progress until the very last moment, as Dytyniuk conceals them through gestural techniques, such as flinging paint, rotating the canvas, and a symphony of acrylics at the whim of brushstrokes, splashes and seemingly disjointed lines which, suddenly, coalesce into a perfectly recognisable face. To the resulting amazement of the general public and the patron, client (or television judge) in particular.
