For the artist Volodymyr Karvasarnyi, the poster is not just a statement, but a form of struggle. He is acutely aware of his responsibility as an artist and Ukrainian patriot. The state, faith, war, freedom, love, religion… are topics that the artist constantly addresses because they haunt him, both in terms of Ukrainian history and the present. Through the poster, he conveys the complex range of emotions and the horror of the events that all Ukrainians are experiencing and going through today, speaking without words about this fusion of shocks and uplifts. Karvasarny’s posters are concrete and concise. The artist has achieved this through an expressive characterization of the images, minimizing the details and, in most cases, abandoning them. While working on the poster, the author is looking for new original compositional solutions, a new figurative approach. Therefore, his works have a deep personal character, they are full of expression and internal dynamics. The presented works are painted with paints. The deep, multifaceted Volodymyr Karvasarnyi is an artist who makes you think and does it in his own author’s manner.

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    Volodymyr Karvasarnyi (1949 – born in Petrashivka village, Khmelnytskyi region) is a Ukrainian painter, poster artist, master of monumental painting, developer and implementer of design projects for public spaces, objects of historical, local lore and cultural significance.

    He received his professional education at the Vyzhnytsia School of Decorative and Applied Arts (now the Vasyl Shkribliak Vyzhnytsia Professional College of Arts and Design), graduating in 1976 (Department of Artistic Metal Processing). Teachers: Eduard Zhukovskyi, Petro Lemskyi, Valerii Zhavoronkov.

    Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, winner and laureate of international and national graphic arts competitions, winner of the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi City Prize and the Vyacheslav Rozvadovskyi Regional Prize in Khmelnytskyi.

    He is the author of posters, mosaic and stained-glass panels, and graphic cycles on historical, political, social and psychological topics.

 He has participated in numerous city, national, and international competitions, exhibitions, and projects since 1979. Among them:

International Poster Exhibition “Auschwitz Warns”, Poland, 1985.

Lahti 85 Poster Biennial, Finland, 1985.

Exhibition of Ukrainian posters, Germany, 1986.

International Poster Exhibition, Poland, 1988.

International poster exhibition “Brno-90”, Czech Republic, 1990.

International competition of stage poster, Bulgaria, 1995.

National exhibition of architecture, Kyiv 2003.

National Poster Exhibition, Lviv 2010.

All-Ukrainian exhibition “Christmas”, Kyiv 2017.

Since 1989, he has organized numerous personal exhibitions in different cities of Ukraine and abroad.

His works are kept in museums and private collections in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, France, the USA, etc.