On February 21 in Odesa there will be a meeting with Shevchenko Prize laureate, poet and artist from the Kherson region Anatoliy Kychynskyi. The artist will share his work and the story of saving his own canvases.
This was reported on the website of the Odesa National Scientific Library.
The event will be hosted by the Book Museum of the Odesa National Scientific Library. The meeting begins at 14:00.
During the event guests will be able to speak personally with the artist about contemporary literature and his artistic path, hear the author’s readings of poems that have become classics, and learn details of the author’s translation activities.
Anatoliy Kychynskyi was born in 1950 in the village of Preobrazhenka in the Kherson region. He is a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (2006) and the Vasyl Symonenko Prize (2020) and an honorary member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Because of the full-scale Russian invasion, Anatoliy Kychynskyi was forced to leave his home. After the de-occupation of Kherson, some of his paintings were miraculously saved and transported to Rivne, where the Kychynskyi couple currently reside.