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The exhibition of the painting "The Singer of Steppe Hellas. The Portrait of Evgen Malaniuk"

«It’s impossible to imagine the formation of the nation,
the state structure for it forms without a single national ideology» (Evgen Malanyuk)

 

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of our famous countryman, writer, essayist, literary critic, member of the liberation struggle of UPR era Evgen Fylymonovych Malanyuk (1897-1968), in early February 2017 in the Regional Art Museum there was a painting exhibition "The Singer of Steppe Hellas. The Portrait of Evgen Malaniuk" (2001 – 2006), whose author – the Honored Artist of Ukraine, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Andriy Nadezhdin.

The culturologist Oksana Pachlowska in the preface to the publication of the series «Piercing publicism» ? « Evgen Malaniuk. Little Russian. Essays from the history of our culture» wrote: «Evgen Malaniuk ? a writer who was always «upstream» , who led the «cohort» of his poems «in the face of creative disasters». He was hated and feared by the Soviets. Having returned with his books in Ukraine since the beginning of Independence, Malanyuk became irreconcilably critical to our contemporaries».

Malanyuk is a brilliant personality. Our town has some developed multifaceted talents of Malanyuk: in painting (he attended the drawing classes of Feodosiy Kozachynskyi), in music (all his life he admired Beethoven, Grieg, he hasn’t any public performance without music) ect.

In 2007, the Securities Market collection of the Kirovograd Regional Art Museum replenished paintings "The Singer of Steppe Hellas. The Portrait of Evgen Malaniuk" (2001 – 2006) of the famous Kropyvnytskyi artist Artist Andriy Nadezhdin.

Nadezhdin Andriy Myhailovych, the Honored Artist of Ukraine (2013), member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1991). The winner of the regional prize in Fine Arts and Art Studies named after Olexander Osmerkin in the categories «new direction» and «art history and art history». In 2009 he was presented in Kirovohrad on the city Hall of Fame in the category «The Best Worker of Arts».

The painting «The Singer of Steppe Hellas. The Portrait of Evgen Malaniuk» was first introduced in the National exhibition «History and modernity in art» timed to the 10th anniversary of independence of Ukraine» in the National Complex «Expocenter of Ukraine» 22-28 August 2001 (Kyiv).

The idea of creating songs appeared in Andryi Nadezhdin while working on the design of the book Leonid Kutsenko «Dominus Malanyuk. Background and personality". According to the artist, the work on the painting was a long-term and was rewritten several times. The center of the composition of the work is a portrait of Evgen Malaniuk, the basis image of which was a poets’ photo of American period with a tube in white coats, the artist's imagination is like the return of the poet in modern Novoarkhangelsk steppes where wormwood noises and mallows blossoms. Pictured a boy in the upper corner of the painting – a small Evgen, who opens the door inviting us to his historical and spiritual circles where there are Ivan Mazepa and Cossack glory of the Black Sea trips, the Arcadia memory of Greek Arcadia and Roman weapon. Behind the image of Eugen Malaniuk there are two crosses as messianic creeds. Near the black ? defeated but undefeated Cossack of the UPR army, near white ? six-winged Seraphim – a red angel who calls the sky for the aid. Magic Phoenix completes compositional range, which, according to representations of ancient people Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks ? when he felt the death approaching, he built a nest of fragrant branches at the top of the tree, and there he was burning by the sun, but according to legend, he immediately rises from the ashes. In a figurative sense it’s a symbol of immortality and rebirth".

It should be noted that in the exhibition of the department of the museum – a picture gallery of Petro Ossowskyi "The World and Homeland" there is a triptych presented of the native artist of the USSR, one of the founders of the "severe style" in the art of Petro Ossowskyi (1925-2015) dedicated to our land. The title of the work ? "Steppe Hellas" (2007) – a prominent artist borrowed from fellow-countryman, a famous poet Yevgen Malaniuk. In this phrase Petro Pavlovych found a combination of love and grandeur, which is worthy land, as his personal belief, gave him life and everything needed to make your life's purpose ? to extol the land and people to live and work there. In his work, Petro Ossowskyi declared his love to the homeland, reflected its stark pristine poetry, which inspires us to feel the mix of present and past images in the age path, lonely poplars and Scythian burial mound.

The triptych "Steppe Hellas" was donated to our museum (in the collection of works of the artist) at the opening of the gallery in May 2007. And in 2013, the author's version of this triptych was handed personally by Petro Pavlovych Ossowskyi to the National Art Museum of Ukraine.