Exhibitions

Virtual exhibition of works by sculptor Viktor Frenchko,
a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine,
"Everything depends on the artist's talent..."
to the 75th anniversary of his birth
from the museum collection "Modern Ukrainian Fine Art"

    The exhibition of works by a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Viktor Frenchko, "Everything depends on the artist's talent..." is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian sculptor.
    Frenchko Viktor Vasyliovych (August 6, 1949, Pidzamochok village, Buchatsky district, Ternopil region - September 13, 2019, Kropyvnytskyi) is a famous Ukrainian sculptor.
    Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2012). Laureate of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination "national tradition" (2009). The first laureate of the Borys Vintenko City Art Prize (2018).
    After graduating from the Buchach Children's Art School, he continued his studies at the T.H.Shevchenko Kyiv State Art School (1964-1967). He graduated with honors from the Kyiv State Art Institute, now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, majoring in sculpture (1973), the workshop of People's Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR Mykhailo Lysenko.
    According to the distribution, he came to Kirovohrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, worked in the Kirovohrad art and production plant of the Art Fund of Ukraine.
Participant of regional, republican and all-Ukrainian art exhibitions. The works are stored in the Art Museum and O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    He is the author of a large number of works in various genres of monumental art - sculptural compositions, busts, monuments, commemorative signs, memorial plaques. Monuments "Memorial to the Red-Eyed Workers Who Died on the Fronts of the Great Patriotic War" and "The First Tram in Yelisavethrad" in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, "Cossack-defender" in the village. A merchant of the Novoarkhanhelsk district, the stele "Nadiia Tobilevich-Tarkovska" in the State Reserve-Museum of I.K.Tobilevich (Karpenko-Karyi) "Khutir "Nadiia", a bust of the poet and fighter for the independence of Ukraine Yevhen Malaniuk in the village of Novoarkhanhelsk, and academician Kostiantyn Skriabin in t. Novomyrhorod, Kirovohrad region, memorial plaques in Kropyvnytskyi: to historical figures of the city mayor Oleksandr Pashutin, doctor Samuil Vaisenberh, patroness Hanna Dmytrian, pianist Ferenc List, as well as contemporaries - artists Borys Vintenko, Yurii Lutskevich and Vasyl Ostapenko, composers Heinrich Neuhaus, Yulii Meitus and Karol Szymanowski, actor Valerii Deinekin, poets Arsenii Tarkovskyi and Valerii Honcharenko, journalist Vitalii Tsypin, photojournalist Vasyl Kovpak, historian Petro Kyzymenko, fighter for the Independence of Ukraine Semen Soroka. This is an incomplete list of what the sculptor Victor Frenchko created independently and in collaboration with his colleague, the sculptor Arkadii Matsievskyi.
    In 2016, on the occasion of the Artist's Day, the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum organized a cultural and artistic event in the creative workshop of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko, located on one of the central streets of the city. One of the initiators of the event was the well- known Krypynytskyi photographer Oleksandr Shuleshko, who proposed to combine two arts - sculpture and photography, because in different years he used his camera lens to capture moments of the life and work of his fellow sculptor Viktor Frenchko in his workshop. During this unique creative event, the thematic catalog "Language of plastics. Viktor Frenchko is about life and art" as part of the museum art project "In the artist's workshop" was presented. It was compiled by the leading research fellow of the museum, Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadiezhdin (1963-2022), who, characterizing the art history aspect of Viktor Frenchko's sculptural compositions in the context of the history of development of Ukrainian fine art in general and monumental art in particular, interviewed the artist and published it in the catalog. To the museum question of the scientist "Are you closer to small forms of sculpture or monumental ones?", Victor Frenchko answered without hesitation: "It's the same for me. In both cases, the amount of time spent on solving an artistic idea is not limited. Creative forces are connected with emotions. Therefore, in fact - it does not matter. Now they ask, what is easier to work with - for an order or for yourself? But it's all for yourself, everything goes through you. Of course, sculpture needs material embodiment, you can't just hide it in a closet, of course there is a desire for a large form, so sculptors work in squares and in cemeteries. Here, take the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, it is not only a place of memory, it is a museum, and what masters worked there. Everything depends on the talent and ability of the artist."
    And in October 2019, the presentation of the thematic exhibition "City of Artists. It is dedicated to the memory of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko and the sculptor Viktor Frenchko" was held at the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum. This is how Andrii Nadiezhdin, a leading researcher at the museum and an Honored Artist of Ukraine, wrote about it in one of his articles: "As part of the museum's art project "Exhibition of One Work," in the hall where the photo exhibition "Architect Yakiv Pauchenko and His City" is on display, dedicated to the 265th anniversary of the founding of Kropyvnytskyi, a portrait of Yakiv Pauchenko by the famous Ukrainian sculptor Viktor Frenchko (1949-2019) was presented. The artist created it on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth and donated it to the museum's collection in 2017... The artist worked on the portrait of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko for more than a year - he got acquainted with the peculiarities of his life, studied rare photographic materials from the museum's funds, and repeatedly brought sketches and sculptural sketches of the future portrait for discussion with experts on the architect's life. The result was a lively, emotional, marked by artistic sophistication and even some outrageous image of the creator of our city, about whom the newspaper "Voice of the South" in 1914 wrote that "he gave the first lessons of artistic architecture in our city"... Executed in the classical form of a medallion, the bas-relief profile of the architect in an imposing hat, according to the author's intention, reflects the image of a creator, full of artistic ideas, creative searches, original artistic discoveries and optimistic hopes for the future of the Art Nouveau era, illuminated by the ideas of scientific and technological progress, in which Yakiv Pauchenko lived and worked. The author himself, speaking at a meeting with museum researchers about his choice of the form of the portrait image, noted that when looking at photos from different years, his attention was drawn to several pictures of Yakiv Pauchenko, in particular with his family in the courtyard of his house, with his nephew Oleksandr Osmerkin in Kharlab's photo studio, with his sister Olimpiada in a home theater scene and during his stay in the city of Pyatigorsk, in which he appeared as a living person, full of movement and energy, elegant and somewhat theatrical, as if demonstrating his "I" as an artist".
    In the summer of 2020, on the initiative of the widow of the sculptor Liudmyla Ivanivna Frenchko, the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum held an "Art event on the birthday of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko", which gathered artists, journalists, cultural workers and fans of the work of the master of monumental art. During the event, the works of the artist were exhibited and the films "A special gift - the plastic thinking of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko" (2018) and "Images of the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater in the work of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko" (2020) were shown, prepared by Liudmyla Frenchko, who for many years successfully worked as a teacher and head of the creative club "Inspiration" of the Kropyvnytskyi Music College and laureate of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination "art history and art history" (2013).
    The exposition of the memorial exhibition "Everything depends on the artist's talent..." consists of eleven sculptural works by Viktor Frenchko, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, from the museum collection "Modern Ukrainian Fine Art" 1999-2018, donated to the museum funds by the author and his widow Liudmyla Frenchko.
    The exhibition is complemented by photos of the sculptor Victor Frenchko in the workshop and during artistic events, as well as events dedicated to the artist's memory. Photos from the series "In the sculptor's workshop" by Oleksandr Shuleshko - a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, laureate of the Vasyl Kovpak city prize for photo artists (2020) and the regional journalism prize in the "photojournalism" category (2021) attract special attention.


Exhibition poster "Everything depends on the artist's talent..."
to the 75th anniversary of the birth of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko

Catalogue. The language of plastics. Viktor Frenchko about life and art
From the series of catalogues "In the artist's workshop".
Author-compiler, design - leading researcher of the museum,
honored artist of Ukraine, art critic A.M.Nadiezhdin.
– Kropyvnytskyi: Art Memorial Museum of O.O.Osmerkin, 2016. – 12 p.: ill.

Sculptor Viktor Frenchko
Photos of Oleksandr Shuleshko from the series "In the sculptor's workshop",
which were exhibited during the cultural and artistic event for the Artist's Day
in the creative workshop of Viktor Frenchko, organized by Art Memorial Museum of
O.O.Osmerkin on the occasion of the presentation of the catalogue "The Language of Plastics.
Viktor Frenchko is about life and art" as part of the art project
"In the artist's workshop" on October 7, 2016

Sculptor Victor Frenchko
Photo from the exposition of the virtual exhibition of Oleksandr Shuleshko's photos
"Art", presented on the website of the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum
in the "Selected Exhibitions" section on July 2, 2022

Victor Frenchko during the celebrations on the occasion of the presentation of the regional prize
in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin
in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum on December 8, 2009
.
In the picture from left to right: award winner in the nomination "art history and art history" Serhii Zhuravel,
award winner in the nomination "new trends" artist Ihor Smychek, chairman of the Kirovohrad Regional
Council, chairman of the jury of the award Mykola Sukhomlyn, winner of the award in the nomination "national tradition" sculptor Victor Frenchko,
head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine
People's Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Nadiezhdin

Viktor Frenchko during the presentation of the city art award named after Borys Vintenko
at the Kropyvnytskyi City Council on September 6, 2018.

In the picture from left to right: city council secretary Andrii Tabalov, prize winner
sculptor Viktor Frenchko with his wife Liudmyla Frenchko,
city council chairman Andrii Raykovich.

Works of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko
from the funds of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum

Bas-relief.
Oleksandr Osmerkin
2012
Tinted plaster
The diameter is 47 sm
Bas-relief.
Architect
Yakiv Pauchenko
1866-1914

2016
Tinted plaster
The diameter is 52 sm
Bas-relief.
Yelysavethrad 1754.
Kirovograd 2005

2005
Tinted plaster
The diameter is 23,5 sm
Bas-relief
Levko Matsievych.
1877-1910

2007
Tinted plaster
The diameter is 19,5 sm
Bas-relief.
Honored Artist
of Ukraine Borys Mykhailovych
Vintenko

2009
Tinted plaster
The diameter is 22,5 sm
Bas-relief.
Artist
Vasyl Ostapenko

2017
Tinted plaster
18x15,5 sm

Layout of the memorial plaque.
Philanthropist Hanna Dmytrian
1843-1913

2014
Tinted plaster
10,5x19 sm
 Bust layout.
Architect Anatoly
Gubenko. 2012-2013

Plasticine
Height – 19,5 sm
   The layout of the monument.
Artist
Ivan Pokhytonov

2015
Plasticine
Height – 15 sm
  Layout of the memorial stele
Artist
Ivan Pokhytonov

2018
Tinted plaster
35x16,5 sm
  Sculpture.
On a walk.
Artist
Volodymyr Ostroukhov

1999
Tinted plaster
Height – 67 sm

Art events of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum

Cultural and artistic event for the Artist's Day in the creative workshop of Viktor Frenchko
and the presentation of the catalogue "The language of plasticity. Viktor Frenchko is about life and art"
as part of the art project "In the artist's workshop"

on October 7, 2016

Sculptor Viktor Frenchko presents sketches of the bas-relief "Yakiv Pauchenko. 1866-1914"
to the head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine,
Andrii Khvorost, the director of the museum, Vita Chernova,
and the chief custodian of the museum's funds, Iryna Diachuk, in
the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum

on December 23, 2016

Presentation of the thematic exhibition "City of Artists."
Dedicated to the memory of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko
and the sculptor Viktor Frenchko" in the O.O.Osmerkin Art
Memorial Museum

on October 28, 2019

"Art event on the birthday of the sculptor Viktor Frenchko (1949-2019)"
at the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum

on August 6, 2020