On October 5, 2023,
a presentation of the exhibition of the works of the Honored Artist of
Ukraine Hryhorii Hnatiuk "Graphic revelations of Hryhorii Hnatiuk" was
held in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum for the Artist's Day as
part of the museum art project "Laureates of the Regional Prize in the
Field of Fine Art and Art History named after Oleksandr Osmerkin". The
exposition of the exhibition consists of drawings by the Honored Artist
of Ukraine Hryhorii Hnatiuk (1951-2012), presumably from the late 1990s
- early 2000s, made with pencil, ink, gouache, sangina, and ballpoint
pen on paper of various A4 and A5 formats in the author's style in
various visual genres, which are a kind of creative laboratory of the
artist in reproducing the life of a person and his spiritual world.
The initiative to organize the exhibition belongs to Svitlana
Ushakova, head of the art department of the Regional Universal
Scientific Library named after D.I.Chizhevskyi, laureates of the
Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize in the field of fine arts and art
history in the nomination "art history and art history" as part of the
author's team (2018). She proposed this idea a few years ago to the
leading researcher of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum, expert art
critic, Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin, who after
scientific study of more than half a thousand graphic sketches and
sketches of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhorii Hnatiuk from the
private collection of the artist Oleksandr Kryvko - a teacher at the art
school named after O.O.Osmerkin, selected more than one and a half
hundred drawings for the exhibition and wrote an art history article for
the exhibition catalog "Graphic revelations of Hryhorii Hnatiuk".
Unfortunately, the quarantine prevented us from presenting the
exhibition for the Artist's Day in 2021, and in 2022, Andrii Nadiezhdin
suddenly passed away on October 19. Museum scientists decided to bring
their colleague's work to a logical conclusion and present his latest
artistic project, which covers the entire spectrum of 27 years of
successful scientific and artistic activity of Andrii Nadiezhdin - twice
laureate of the Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize in the field of fine
arts and art history in the nomination "art history and the history of
arts" (2010) and as part of the author's collective (2019).
The exhibition "Graphic revelations of Hryhorii Hnatiuk" and
the thematic catalog of the exhibition with an introductory article by
Andrii Nadiezhdin, the computer layout and layout of which was developed
by the artist Nataliia Kornilova, were presented by the director of the
museum, Vita Chernova. The general emotional mood for all present was
created at the beginning of the event by the performance of the teachers
of music school No. 1 named after H.G.Neuhaus Oleksandr Romanchenko (violin)
and Olha Tereshchenko (piano), who performed the "Melody" of the famous
Ukrainian composer Hero of Ukraine Myroslav Skoryk - a musical
composition called the "Spiritual Hymn of Ukraine", which was one of
Andrii Nadiezhdin's favorites.
His friends and colleagues - co-organizers of the exhibition
Svitlana Ushakova and Oleksandr Kryvko, members of the National Union of
Artists of Ukraine Fedir Lagno, Valerii Davydov and Yurii Vintenko
shared memories of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhoriy Hnatyuk, his
life and work. The head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the
National Union of Writers of Ukraine, candidate of philological sciences,
Nadiia Harmazii, who came to the opening of the exhibition together with
the students of the alternative school "Krok", made a welcome speech.
The vernissage on the eve of the Artist's Day was a worthy
tribute to the memory of talented artists, Honored Artists of Ukraine
Hryhorii Hnatiuk and Andrii Nadiezhdin, whose work is full of mysteries,
symbols and signs, and their artistic world is for intellectuals who,
through knowledge of the past, try to understand the meaning of modern
life and, if possible, try predict the future of human civilization in
the boundless universe. |