Olha Krasnopolska's artistic project "Rubbles of pain and faith: Graphic, drawn and poetic compositions from the "pink sketchbook"" is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of defenders of Ukraine who died in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine (August 29).
    Krasnopolska Olha Serhiivna was born on August 21, 1983 in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). She studied at the Kirovohrad Children's Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin. She graduated from Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University (now the Central Ukrainian State University) named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko, majoring in "Pedagogy and secondary education methods. Fine and decorative and applied arts" (2005).
    He works as a leading researcher at the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum. Since 2022, he has been the curator of the museum art project "Art Studios" on the theme: "Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war." Participant of regional and all-Ukrainian art exhibitions.
    She presented personal exhibitions of painting and graphic works in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum (2020, 2023) and the regional universal scientific library named after D.I..Chizhevskyi (2022) in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, the art gallery "VashART" in the city of Oleksandria (2020) and the art gallery "Our City" (2021) in the city of Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region. The works are stored in the of O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum and the Museum of Art in Kropyvnytskyi, private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    Creativity is characterized by philosophical reflections on human existence in the universe and the individual's perception of today's problems, saturated with deep folk rituals and symbolism.
    This is the second personal exhibition of the artist in the museum in 2023. The first exhibition of digital collages "2022 Birthday of Christ" was presented on the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 24).
    The exposition of the current virtual opening consists of thirty-nine miniature drawings from a sketchbook measuring 11,5x11,5 cm, made in 2022-2023 with black and red liners, and fifteen poems created in one breath of impressions and feelings of a person who found himself in the realities of war. Most of the drawings were published on the artist's personal pages in the social network, and were also exhibited at the museum exhibitions "Second Biennale of Naive Art and Art of Primitivism "The Velor Cat" named after Andriy Lipatov" (2022) and "ART Shelter for Artists" (2022). And this is only a small part of the multifaceted artistic project of Olha Krasnopolska, which includes painting, graphics and poetry, which is also visual art. It was born as a premonition of disaster, tragedy, pain and suffering, and is realized already during the war as a reflection of conflicting thoughts and emotions, full of disappointments and hopes, with an undeniable belief in the victory of good over evil, light over darkness.
    This is how the artist Olha Krasnopolska herself presents her project: "Rubbles of pain and faith... Almost forty drawings from my "pink sketchbook" and one and a half dozen poems from my bleeding soul, created starting from February 23, 2022, when my first black angel was born... Pain lives in my pictures, and God lives in my poems... And I share all this pain and faith with you... Because sometimes you need to cry in order to continue Living... Black and red in the pictures are enough to capture the most important things that are happening to us now, what worries us, what we fear and what we hope for... And the poems are also drawn... often without syntax and punctuation, words and lines create a graphic composition, like a separate picture... Cry... And let your tears cleanse you of pain and strengthen your faith..."
     Ukraine is bloodied, but unconquered. Strong-spirited Ukrainians protect their native land, its centuries-old history and culture. We did not give up, we live and we will win!