At the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery” an exhibition of works by the artist Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo “Kherson – Paris” was opened, which was dedicated to the third anniversary of the liberation of Kherson.
This is reported in a Suspilne report.
The artist was born in Kherson, but spent most of his life in France, where he worked and developed as an artist.
The project was carried out jointly with the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Shovkunenko. According to the museum director Alina Dotsenko, this is the first solo exhibition of Andriienko-Nechytailo in Ukraine.
Most of the works presented at the exhibition were created nearly a hundred years ago, so they required restoration before being exhibited. After being transported to Kyiv, the paintings were immediately handed over to specialists. For two weeks restorers cleaned and restored the canvases that had lost their brightness over time. As Alina Dotsenko said, after the first interventions the true colors and light intended by the artist became visible.
The Kherson Regional Art Museum received ten works by Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo as a gift from art historian Jean-Claude Marcade in January 2022. Half of them are paintings, and the other five are graphic works. Only recently was this gift officially documented and transferred for temporary storage to the Kyiv Art Gallery.
The exhibition curator Bohdana Abramenko noted that Jean-Claude Marcade personally bought these works from the artist during his lifetime.
In addition to the museum collection, works from private collections were included in the exposition to show a broader spectrum of the artist’s work. The exhibition presents works in the fields of scenography, avant-garde, and neo-realism, which were characteristic of the Parisian art school.
Organizers emphasize that the exhibition has symbolic significance – it is a kind of return of the artist to his native city.
After the exhibition ends all works are to be returned to the Kherson Regional Art Museum.