The virtual exhibition "Artistic Journeys of Andrii Nadiezhdin" is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian artist, Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin.
    Andrii Mykhailovych Nadiezhdin (June 19, 1963, Zaporizhzhia - October 19, 2022, Kropyvnytskyi) is a painter, graphic artist, art critic. Honored Artist of Ukraine (2013). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1990). Laureate of the Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize in the field of fine arts and art history in the nominations "new trends" (2008) and "art history and art history" (2010, 2019). Laureate of the regional local history award named after Volodymyr Yastrebov (2015). Awarded a presentation on the City Board of Honor in the nomination "Best Artist" (2009).
    Graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Art School named after E.V.Vuchetich is now the Dnipro Theater and Art College, department of artistic design, Dnipro (1986) and with honors the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, Faculty of History and Theory of Fine Art, qualification "connoisseur of fine art, critic", Kyiv (2004).
    He worked as an artist at the Art and Production Combine of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1986–1992), a teacher at the Kirovohrad Children's Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin, now the O.O.Osmerkin Art School in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (1992–1995), leading researcher of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum (1995–2022).
    Participant of regional, all-Ukrainian, international and foreign exhibitions. Personal exhibitions in Kropyvnytskyi in the Art Salon of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the NUAU (1986, 1991, 1993), O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum (1996, 2001, 2008, 2015, 2018), Kirovohrad Regional Center of Folk Art (2015), literary - the memorial museum of I.K.Karpenko-Karyi (2016, 2020), the galleries "Zahidna" in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (2017) and "Our City" in the city of Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region (2021).
    The works are stored in the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Directorate of Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Directorate of Exhibitions of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Art Museum, the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum, the I.K.Karpenko-Karyi Literary Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, the memorial museum of V.Ivasyuk in Chernivtsi, the Historical Museum of the city of Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region, private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The author of the design of the works of writers of the Kirovohrad region, including the books: Leonid Kutsenko "Dominus Malaniuk: background and figure" (2001), Petro Seletskyi "Autumn Beast" (2002), a collection of poems by Yevhen Malaniuk "One dream, one pain..." with translations by Oleksandr Arkhanhelskyi (2013), Anatolyi Chernysh "About the ladybug, the crane, the viburnum and the letter I" (2010), "Riddles, counters, colloquialisms, proverbs" (2012), "Riddles in coloring pictures" (2014), Vasyl Datsenko "Green Gate: Uncovering the Legend" (2015), Mykola Smolenchuk's historical novels "White Blankets" and "Sad Times" (2015, 2016), Olha Polevina and Oleksandr Arkhanhelsky "Wreath of Sonnets" (2019), Nataliia Smirnova "Loser" (2019), collection Arsen Tarkovsky's poetry "Bumblebee Banquet" with translations by Svitlana Orel (2020), Oksana Holnyk "In Search of the Voice of Mark Kropyvnytskyi" (2020) and many others.
    Author of art studies publications in all-Ukrainian periodicals: magazines "Fine Art", "Artania", "Ukrainian Culture", "Museums of Ukraine", newspaper "Kultura i Zhyttya", local press.
    Author-compiler of the albums of the publishing house "Imex-LTD" in Kropyvnytskyi: "Architectural Art" and "Fine Art" from the set of photo albums "Kirovohrad Region in the Mirror of Time" for the 75th anniversary of the formation of Kirovohrad Oblast (2013), "The City of Five Names. At the crossroads of styles and eras. Architectural images of the city of Kropyvnytskyi through the lens of Igor Demchuk" (2018) and a series of catalogs of the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum: "Laureates of the Oleksandr Osmerkin Regional Prize in the Field of Fine Arts and Art History" (2013–2021) and "In the Workshop artist" (2015-2021).
    The initiator of the establishment of the exposition and exhibition art project of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum "Biennale of naïve art and art of primitivism "The Velor Cat" named after Andriy Lipatov to the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Masters of Folk Art" (2020).
    The author of the projects of the artistic decoration of the expositions: the Museum Room of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kirovohrad Region, the Museum of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kirovohrad Region, the Archeological Museum of the Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the Museum Rooms of the Kirovohrad Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education named after Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi, the People's Museum " The Museum of the Liberation of Kirovohrad Region", Department of Nature of the Kirovohrad Regional Museum of Local History.
    The exposition of the commemorative exhibition "Artistic Journeys of Andrii Nadiezhdin" consists of twenty-eight paintings and graphic works of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin from the museum collection "Contemporary Ukrainian Fine Art" of different years, which the painter personally donated to the museum's funds, in which he repeatedly presented his personal exhibitions
    The exhibition is complemented by books designed by the Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin, with his gift signatures to the museum, booklets and a catalog of personal exhibitions in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum, a book-booklet with poems and drawings by Andrii Nadiezhdin (1995), as well as photos of museum art events - presentation of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin (2008, 2010, 2019), presentations of personal exhibitions - "Exhibition of works by Andrii Nadiezhdin" (1996), "Echoes of the Steppe" (2008), "Artistic metamorphoses of Andrii Nadiezhdin" from the series "Laureates of the Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize in the field of fine arts and art history" (2015), "Impressions of space and time" (2018) and the thematic exhibition "One dream, one pain..." Poetry by Yevhen Malaniuk in illustrations of the honored artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin" to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the compatriot writer, centurion of the UNR Army E.F.Malanyuk and the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917).
    The magazines "Step" (2021) with the author's article "Non-fantasy tales of my childhood, or How I became an artist" and "Fine Art" (2018) and "Persona" (2018) with articles by the Krypynytskyi art critic and honored journalist of Ukraine Bronislav Kumanskyi "From the view of the eternal" about the work of the honored artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin attract special attention.
    Andrii Nadiezhdin's work is full of mysteries, symbols and signs. His artistic world is for intellectuals who are interested in the historical past, try to understand modern life and, if possible, try to predict the future. "I am a representative of Ukrainian romantic symbolism of the new wave, which was born in the 90s of the 20th century," - this is how the artist always characterized himself. His works are poetic, and this is not surprising, because he himself wrote poems, as he said, "created words." Passion for poetry and literature in general, a deep sense of the art of words gave him the opportunity to successfully realize himself as an illustrator. There are many angels in his compositions, and this also has an author's explanation: "My angels are observers of the universe, adventurers in the world of people. In general, since they live for a long time in our time-space, I think they learned to sleep, eat, empathize with human life, became similar to us, and how else. In 2014, as a reaction to the tragic events of the undeclared war in the east of our country, a new series "Angels do not miss bullets" was born, in which people and angels, the souls of the dead and the living act as one." The problems to which he tried to provide a philosophical understanding in the images of his works are the micro- and macrocosm of the individual, its relationship with the surrounding life and the natural environment, the place of the artist in society, the problems of war and peace, the existence of man in an immeasurable universe.
    In the booklet of his personal exhibition at the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum in 1996, Andrii Nadiezhdin wrote: "We are knocking on the closed door of the Unknown. The Lord said: "Knock and it will be opened to you." Or maybe they are already open, maybe it is the fear of the threshold of the unknown that keeps them locked up. The unknown is attractive and repulsive, it lures a person with the need for knowledge and scares with the fear of the uncertainty of the future existence. Every day we open the door to the future, feeling the tingly joy of knowledge. And at the same time, we are disappointed that there are more questions than answers. And we knock on the door again, walking along the eternal circle of life."