In 2022, the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum is launching a new art project called the Graphics Cabinet, which aims to introduce visitors to one of the oldest art forms, the name of which comes from the Greek word “grafo,” which means “writing, scratching, drawing.” Graphics can be considered the basis of all fine arts, and its origins can be found in Paleolithic rock art.

We are launching the Graphics Cabinet project with the exhibition “Kinship”, which presents the work of the well-known family of Mykhailo and Taras Andriychuk, who are well-known in the artistic space of Podillia. For them, graphics is an organic part of a whole range of creative interests. Mykhailo Omelianovych’s work was characterized by a variety of searches: monumental and decorative compositions, painting, and above all, graphics. According to the famous artist, professor I. M. Selivanov: “Mykhailo Andriychuk is a whole phenomenon in Ukrainian graphics.”

Throughout his life, M. Andriychuk followed high moral principles and taught them to others – pupils, students, and most importantly, his son Taras, who, growing up in an artistic family, simply could not help but become an artist.

Taras Mykhailovych was born in 1961 in Feodosia. In 1962, he moved with his parents to Khmelnytskyi, where he graduated from secondary and children’s art schools. In 1987, he received his professional education at the Odesa State Art School named after M. Hrekov. Since the same year, he has been working at the Khmelnytskyi Art and Production Plant as a designer, and later in easel and monumental painting. He was a lecturer at the Design Department of KhNU. In 2012, he graduated from the Faculty of Art and Graphic Arts of the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynskyi, because his graphic talent has always been inseparable from his artistic perception of the world around him.

The artist pays special attention to the human image in his work. And it does not matter whether the work is dedicated to prominent figures or ordinary people – the depicted characters are always endowed with a subtle psychological characterization.

Among the large number of works presented in the exhibition, special attention is drawn to women’s portraits, in which Andriychuk Jr. maintains a balance between a delicate inner world and a complex visual image, thus creating his unique graphic style.

The exhibition will run until February.