Salyut Hotel. Kyiv City. Ghost Town series (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Artem Andreichuk

This painting from the Ghost Town series presents a surreal and poetic vision of Kyiv, where reality dissolves into imagination. A solitary cow stands in an open, dreamlike landscape, its body rendered in fluid, shifting tones of blue, green, and violet. The figure feels both present and transparent — like a memory or a passing apparition.

Rising from the cow’s back is the unmistakable form of the Salyut Hotel, painted in vivid pink. This iconic architectural landmark becomes part of the living body, merging the urban and the natural into a single symbolic image. The juxtaposition creates a quiet tension between city life and rural stillness, between permanence and fragility.

In the foreground, a small red mushroom introduces a subtle narrative detail, reinforcing the sense of scale and adding a slightly whimsical, almost fairy-tale accent. The soft gradients of the sky and ground, combined with expressive outlines, give the scene an atmosphere of suspension — as if time has slowed or stopped entirely.

The work reflects on memory, place, and transformation. Kyiv appears here not as a concrete city, but as an emotional landscape, where architecture, nature, and imagination coexist in a fragile, dreamlike balance.

Materials used:

acrylic paints

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 120 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Urban and Pop
• Subject: Architecture and cityscapes

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