2022.8.19-2022.8.21｜The Unbending Ukraine—Super Leisure Lifestyle Show

Artists

Volodymyr Nosan, Safina Ksenia, Roman Nogin, Natasha Perekhodenko

Info

2022.8.19-2022.8.21
Super Leisure Lifestyle Show
Kaohsiung Exhibition Center South Hall

Press

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Overview

Oh great land, today you plant a carriage pole, and tomorrow a horse-drawn carriage grows! This is the great writer Chekhov’s exclamation about the Ukrainian land. On this fertile black earth, a group of talented artists sing the song of the earth with their brushes. Their enchanting voices, like a breeze through a birch forest, are elegant and moving…

It has been over five months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Han Art has been representing artists from the city of Kharkiv, at the forefront of the war, since 2010. Some have become refugees, others continue to stay in the thunderous Kharkiv, and some have fled to small towns in the west… In such circumstances, the brave Volodymir Nosan, under the constant threat of being hit by shells, still boldly paints his feelings about life. He firmly believes that the dawn of Ukraine will eventually arrive. Seeing his paintings like ‘Ukrainian Madonna and Child,’ ‘The Fate of Women,’ ‘Lost Childhood’ under the war, one can feel his love for life and his homeland despite the suffering, still filled with hope for the future.

These Ukrainian artists possess good cultural literacy and a broad range of knowledge. Their paintings involve philosophy, history, religion, astronomy and geography, mythology, and even natural sciences, giving them a deeper understanding of life in the face of their current dire situation. Roman Nogin recently returned to Kharkiv from the north. The days he could not paint drained his life force, so he decided to return to Kharkiv. He needs to paint to heal himself and to express his feelings about the war and life. He says: ‘If I die while painting, I will have lived!’

The ‘Indomitable Ukraine’ exhibition showcases the latest works of four artists from Kharkiv since the outbreak of the war. They live under the terror of warfare, painting their various feelings about the war; pain, sorrow, reluctance, fear, but more so, hope for the future… The indomitable Ukrainians are truly admirable!