Original artwork description:

This picture is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
The artwork "Chernobyl" was painted by me under the impression of the big tragedy at the 1986 nuclear power plant in Chernobyl ( Ukraine).
I was very small and I do not remember the events, but we were evacuated. We were forced to leave our house for almost half a year.

Everything was hiding from us, we did not know what scale of the tragedy was.
We began to learn the truth Only after many years. The Chernobyl series, created by the American television channel HBO together with the British television network Sky, opened our eyes to the value of liquidating the accident.
The painting was created with the goal to gratitude to the liquidators who survived and in memory of those who are no longer with us.
If not for their feat, there would be no Eurasian continent ...

In the center of the plot of the picture is a telephone in a gas mask around him children's dolls. Inside the gas mask there was a living snail, as a sign of life.
These dolls are painted from photos of dolls that still lie there in Chernobyl, dolls still have radiation on them.

My city Kyiv and nearby cities were cleared of radiation even before the collapse of the USSR.

The painting is included in a series of Pathos of Bureaucracy.

They say that the Chernobyl tragedy affected the collapse of the USSR. But a lot of empty words, inaction, complete bureaucracy are what influenced both the collapse of the USSR and the tragedy in Chernobyl.


100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready to hang (edges of a picture is painted)
Signed on the front and back.
Certificate of authenticity is included.

Materials used:

oil on canvas

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