On January 24, 2024, the presentation of the book "Pieces of Pain and Faith. Poems. Graphics" by the famous Kropyvnytskyi artist and poet Olha Krasnopolska, which was published by Imex-LTD LLC publishing house in December 2023, was held at the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    This book was included in the List of book publications to be published (purchased) with budget funds in 2023, which were determined by the Expert Council on Book Publishing of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration in accordance with the "Comprehensive Program for Promoting the Development of Civil Society, the Information Sphere, and Book Publishing in the Kirovohrad Region for the Period until 2026" (Order of the Department of Public Communications and Information Activities of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration dated November 16, 2023 No. 53-od "On Approval of the List of Book Publications for Release (Purchase) with Budget Funds"). The selected works cover a variety of topics and authorial approaches, contributing to the expansion of the cultural space and access to a variety of literature for citizens.
    In the annotation to the book it is stated: "Falling to pieces from pain, we do not become weaker. On the contrary - in order to be truly reborn, to become strong and to realize our own indomitability as a shield - we must pass through the sharpest pain... Because this is the only way faith crystallizes. Because only from faith, baptized by the flame of painful losses, uncertainty, paralyzing fear, Ukrainian indomitability emerges. The war in the poems and paintings of Olha Krasnopolska is an artistic reflection on the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The publication presents poems and drawings from a sketchbook that our contemporary created after February 24, 2022, recording our pain and our faith in words and graphics. These are the fragments of pain and faith that are left over from us of yesterday, and from which you can reassemble yourself - the fundamentally different self. Because we will never be the same again as we were before the start of the full-scale invasion... But we will definitely, as Olha Krasnopolska emphasizes, "win and sing."
    The collection of poems with author's drawings "Pieces of pain and faith" was created on the basis of the artistic project of Olha Krasnopolska "Pieces of pain and faith: Graphic drawn and poetic compositions from the "pink sketchbook"" - a virtual exhibition dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the defenders of Ukraine who died in of the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, presented on August 29, 2023 on the website of the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum in the "Selected Exhibitions" section.
    During the event dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Olha Krasnopolska, who successfully works as a leading researcher of the museum, demonstrated a prepared presentation "Art and War" about the history of the creation of her drawings on the eve and during the war in the context of an art historical analysis of the development art in the years of the First and Second World Wars in comparison with the creative reaction of Ukrainian artists to the events of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The decoration of the creative meeting was the author's poems of the mystic, which she not only recited personally, but also voiced one of them, "We will win - we will sing" as a song, the music for which was written by the Kropyvnytskyi artist and musician Oleksandr Kyrianov, and which was first heard in the museum on August 22 2022 during the opening of the exhibition "INVINCIBLE" within the art project "Art studios on the theme: Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war".
    The author was congratulated with the presentation of the book by the deputy head of the Kirovohrad regional military administration Kateryna Koltunova, the head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Nadiia Harmazii, the head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Andrii Hvorost, the director of the publishing house of Imex-LTD LLC Tamara Samyliak and on behalf of the team the director of the museum, Vita Chernova, and the head of the Department of Communications with the Public and Information Activities of the Kirovohrad regional military administration Vitalii Ostannii presented her with the author's copies, noting that this book will be distributed to all libraries of the region.
    And the event ended with the traditional autograph session of the artist and poet Olha Krasnopolska, because there were many willing to have her book in their own library, including fellow artists, journalists, teachers, friends and relatives.