From 1985 when Perestroika began and the economic system of the country collapsed, the Union of Artists eventually ceased exhibiting all artists representing socialist realism. The members of the Union no longer received government orders; professional artists totally lost their significance.

During those hard times I decided not to compel to the likes and demands of the wealthy. Not to lose my degree of professionalism and skill. Grotesque in my style also developed due to perestroika and infringed human dignity. This feature of my paintings is characteristic of humorous and sarcastic attitude, plastic, sharp and light colors and lines...

I strived not to lapse into exteriority and dilettantism, strived to retain my professional level and not to lose the artistic school formed by the benchmarks of great artists’ works. Art is so serious; and to pursue it and leave a mark in its history one needs to go a very long and thorny way. 

Logvinenko