Volodymyr Patyk (1929) –is a classic and creator of the history of art, an honoured artist of Ukraine, a holder of a shevchenko’s premium. A titanic and legendary person who formed progressive artistic and national mentality in times of totalitarism. “He has been a visit card of a Galician painting for more than 50 years”. Today he shows his creative liveliness with this exhibition of brand new works in The Green Sofa Gallery.

In the core of this exhibition - landscapes from numerous artistic trips of an artist. Crimea – endless inspiration for those who adore light and colour. Here you can find realistic and form-creatinglandscapes. They used to bother a lot different committees of culture of the USSR.

Lviv – city that took part in artistic shaping of an artist, a city that presented him with teachers that studied in Paris and Krakov. Among them there were R.Selskiy, V.Monastyrsky, Y.Bokshay, M.Fediyk, O.Lishchynskiy.

Moscow – is the centre of the exhibition. The kind of Moscow that was depicted by the artist that was exiled from the Institute of Decorative and applied arts for being formal. It is interestinf that all the pictures are marked on the reversed side with the names of the streets and numbers of buildings that no longer exist.

A self-portrait from the home collection of V.Patyk of 1984.

And what is more important, all the pictures created in 2008. The author says: I have used more than 500 kilogrammes of paint, 1875 metres of canvas and 1,5 tonnes of paper for my creative life… Now I live with full taste of life, love and dreams… and I refuse to admit the passeport age.”


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