About event
On the birthday of the founder of the domestic museum of Ukrainian antiquities—an Artist through whose hands God, out of great love, preserved the resonance of Ukraine—we gratefully invite you to an exhibition of landscapes by Ivan Honchar.
This exhibition is a quiet echo of the roads and expanses of Ukraine that he traveled over the decades. Nineteen oil paintings emerged from numerous expeditions between the 1930s and 1970s, preserving the meaningful rhythm of what he saw and experienced. Their geography unfolds from Kyiv and Vyshhorod to Chernihiv and Kaniv, spanning the Cherkasy and Vinnytsia regions, Prykarpattia, Zakarpattia, Crimea, and other places that sometimes remained unnamed, yet never lost to memory.
"When I took up the brush during my expeditions, I was in a hurry. For I saw how that old Ukraine I knew from childhood was vanishing before my eyes. I wanted to preserve it for future generations, at least on my canvases."
This exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter another facet of the Artist's soul: Ivan Honchar as a subtle lyricist, for whom landscapes were a form of expressing love for the land, its people, and its traditions.
