City of Kyiv (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Artem Andreichuk

In "City of Kyiv", I treat the canvas as an archive of memory, where linear time dissolves into absolute absurdity. The brutalist silhouette of Kyiv's Salyut Hotel—a heavy monument of urbanism—is stripped of its aggressive weight and paradoxically balances on the back of a calm, archaic cow. This surreal collision transforms the city’s concrete myth into a fragile mental mirage. The metropolis no longer dictates the rules; it becomes a ghostly recollection, completely displaced by the silent, primordial presence of nature and an expansive, empty horizon.

Steeped in a cinematic suspense and profound existential isolation, this space operates on the logic of a fading dream. Influenced by the atmospheric detachment of Pink Floyd and the psychedelic textures of Jefferson Airplane, I wanted to lock the viewer into a realm uncontrolled by the rational mind. Surrounded by an otherworldly glow, scattered amanita mushrooms, and a solitary palm tree, the canvas captures the precise moment where urban civilization surrenders to the eternal silence of the landscape, turning loneliness into a state of absolute inner freedom.

Materials used:

acrylic paints

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 130 x 115 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky