O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum presents the exhibition of works of the Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhorii Hnatiuk "Graphic revelations of Hryhorii Hnatiuk" for the Artist's Day as part of the museum art project "Laureates of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin".
    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).
    This exhibition is dedicated 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 to predict the future of human civilization in the infinite universe.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of drawings by the Honored Artist of Ukraine Hryhorii Hnatiuk, according to the assumption of the late 1990s - early 2000s, made with pencil, ink, gouache, sangina, ballpoint pen on paper of different A4 and A5 formats in the author's manner in various artistic genres, which is a kind of creative laboratory of the artist in reproducing the life of a person and his spiritual world.

    Hnatiuk Hryhorii Mykhailovych (June 18, 1951 – October 10, 2012), the village of Nebelivka, Novoarchangelsk district, now Novoarchangelsk community, Golovanivskyi district, Kirovohrad region.
    Honored Artist of Ukraine (2009). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1987), painter, graphic artist. Laureate of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination "newest directions" (2006).
    He graduated from the Kharkiv State Art School, now the Kharkiv Professional Higher Art College, painting and pedagogical department (1975). He worked as an artist-designer in the art and production workshops in the city of Chita, now the Transbaikal region, RF (1975-1979) and the Kirovohrad art and production workshops of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR, now the city of Kropyvnytskyi (1980-1987).
    He started exhibiting in 1987. Participant of All-Union, Republican, All-Ukrainian, international exhibitions - All-Union Exhibition of Works of Young Artists "Youth of the Country" (1982), "Modern Soviet Painting" (1987, Tokyo, Japan), International Biennial Exhibition "Impreza - 89" (1989, Ivano-Frankivsk), "Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Canada" (1990), the All-Union Exhibition-Biennale of Easel Graphics "Kaliningrad - 90" (1990, RF) , the Exhibition "Art in the Shadow of the Hammer and Sickle: Social Realism and Unconquered Art from Ukraine" (1992, Munich, Germany), "Colors of the Steppe" exhibition for the 20th anniversary of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2009, Kyiv). Personal exhibitions were exhibited in Kirovograd, now Kropyvnytskyi (1986, 1987), Kyiv (1989, 1990), Austria (1998).
    The works are stored in the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the Museum of Art and the Art Memorial Museum of O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, Gallery of Modern and Eastern European Art "Red Square" (London, Great Britain), private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
His work is characterized by philosophizing, deep psychologism, a peculiar combination of Ukrainian folk tradition and Western European post-impressionism with a pronounced individual style, which created a new artistic reality with the help of ordinary means of visual language.
    For many years, the artist's paintings were exhibited in the Regional Universal Scientific Library named after D.I.Chizhevsky in Kropyvnytskyi. The author's team of the library consisting of Svitlana Ushakova, Liudmyla Ivantsova and Eleonora Yanchukova for creating a series of albums "Nadiia Padurska. Love of life" (2015), "Hryhorii Hnatiuk. Nebeliv pastorals" (2017), "Voladymyr Kyrianov. The Reality of the Unreal" (2018) was awarded the regional prize in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination "art history" (2018).