Dmytro Dobrovolsky presented his works in the Mystetska Zbirka Art Gallery.
Dmytro Dobrovolsky called his personal exhibition “Mosaic of Color in Canvas.” It is only his second vernisage in Kyiv, as most connoisseurs of modern art familiar with his works live abroad.
“Foreign galleries invite me more often. One of my first foreign personal exhibits took place in London with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Then I was invited to Tallinn, Cambridge, Edinburgh, New York… Maybe, my works are in higher demand beyond Ukraine,” Dobrovolsky told The Day.
“This exhibit is special due to the unusual canvas of the master,” emphasizes Yulia Voloshyna, the art director and co-owner of the gallery. The artist developed his unique mosaic technique, designed his own style by incarnating his individuality and sense of space and time. Dobrovolsky uses oil paint and a palette knife on the colored backgrounds, applying and modifying the technique of contrasting colors, color reflections and shading. Dmytro created his own art world filled with harmony of bright colors and positive emotions. Dobrovolsky’s art is natural, emotional and frank. The subject of his pictures is the ordinary world surrounding us. Yet the artist passes it through his soul, which is full of love and faith in goodness, filling this world with deep spiritual content. There are landscape series devoted to Kyiv, London, Edinburgh, the Crimea and Tallinn. As an urban citizen, the artist is interested in city life in time, space and fate. He depicts city scapes with rich colors and vivid composition.
Nina Dobrovolska, the artist’s wife, spoke with great love about the special state of the artist’s mind, which encourages him to create, inspires him to create exactly what he wants.
“The canvases, presented in the halls, are the reflection of my husband’s soul. He is always positive. It seems that the pictures glow because of the masterly combination of colors. At one exhibit the visitors asked us to show the back sides of the pictures as they thought there was a back light… The mosaic technique requires diligent work. The pictures are not created in few days — it is a major endeavor.”
Natalia Tkach, a visitor, shares her impressions: “When you enter the hall with the artist’s works, you find yourself in a completely different world. It is bright, colorful and at the same time it is familiar, authentic and close to our daily lives. Here is Spring Lavra; Dnipro Bay; Nahirna Street. First Snow; Summer in Podil and the Crimea; then he goes to Italy, London, Cambridge… Not every art work can bring harmony to your heart, it is what we lack in our lives. But that is exactly what the images by Dmytro Dobrovolsky give.”
