Roman Romanyshyn.
“Important Things”
Printmaking, sculpture
15.09-08.10.2023
Opening 15.09.2023 o godz. 19.00
W Savchenko Gallery
Savchenko Gallery
ul. Garbary 8/9, 80-827
Gdańsk, Poland
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun: 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The series “Important Things” was initiated in 2022 at the very beginning of the war. And it’s precisely the start date of working on this series that holds significance in these “Important Things”.
Before that, there was a long period of pandemic and an even longer post-COVID period. During that time, two cycles of works were created under the titles “At Home” and “Island,” where the main themes revolved around loneliness and isolation from the outside world. The theme of the importance of a lack of communication.
Conversely, the compositions of the “Important Things” series are the results of continuous internal dialogues in a world where there’s a deep and total reevaluation of values underway. This involves tapping into certain codes and narratives at a deeply subconscious level, on the level of dreams and fantasies. This series is a visual narrative of a person living at the epicenter of a massive catastrophe, with a sense as if they’ve wandered into a labyrinth and are trying to decode a new reality using ancient, familiar, and simple symbols. RR
Roman Romanyshyn.
Born in 1957, Ukraine
Education: Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts
Activity: Printmaking, painting, sculpture.
Participated at numerous International Exhibitions and Symposiums in Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea…
Awards:
3rd Annual International Miniprint Exhibition, Napa, USA – special merit and purchase award;
14th Mini Print International, Cadaques, Barcelona-award for winning work;
Autumn Salon “High Castle” 97, Lviv, Ukraine, first award for graphic art;
International Art Exhibition “Carpathian Range” First award diploma;
4th International Painting Biennial of Carpathian Euroregion, Przemysl, Poland, prize of Tarnow city mayor;
First biennale of graphic. Saint- Petersburg. Award for small form (common work with O. Denisenko and K. Kalinovich);
International Painting Triennial of Carpathian Region “Silver Quadrangle”, Przemysl, Poland – Slovakian National Prize;
The Balkan Quadrennial of Painting “Myths and Legends of my People” – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria – prize award;
International Painting Triennial of Carpathian Region “Silver Quadrangle”, Przemysl, Poland – Slovakian National Prize;
Main Public Collections:
Ukrainian Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Ukrainian Art Museum, Lviv, Ukraine;
Ukrainian Independent Center of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine;
Ukrainian Art Museum, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine;
Ukrainian Modern Art Museum, Khmelnitski, Ukraine
Museum of Kaniv reservation, Ukraine;
Museum of the Modern Ukrainian fine Arts, Kyiv;
Tretjakov’s Picture Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway;
Juniper Gallery, Napa, USA;
Off Centre Gallery, GB;
Malbork, Castle Museum, Poland;
Olofstrom Public Library, Sweden;
Gallery ”Rigas-Vini”, Latvia;
”Fonds cantonal de decoration”, Geneve, Switzerland.
Organizer: Savchenko Gallery (Savchenko Foundation)
Project “Art Leads to Gdańsk,” Cofinansed by the City of Gdańsk.
WELCOME!
FREE ADMISSION.
Exposition:
Photorelation from the opening 15.09.2023
