Life flows. Day turns into night. Winter comes as an alternate to summer. Each season of the year carries its song. The richness of summer fills our lives with sun-tinted colors and bathes our bodies with its warmth. But it is then that we remember the peace and calm which bring us the winter holidays of St. Nicholas, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Only in winter is it possible to build crystal palaces of ice and snow, to hark back to our primordial past where beauty allows us to be one on one with ourselves. It is that period of the year when secrets are hidden deep below the surface of the snow. It is the time for searching within ourselves. It is the time when legends are born.
Whose golden footprints
Meandering I follow
Through labyrinths of thought and desire
Forever indebted to secrets.
Deep in the hollows of the mind
Luba Markewych Member,
Chicago Art Committee
Serhiy Mikhnovskiy is a prominent Lviv artist. His ideas marked with elegance and uniqueness, he is also a talented organizer of and participant in impromptu projects. Born in Lviv in 1961, he completed, in 1984, the Architectural Department of the Lviv Polytechnical Institute. His fortes are painting, graphic and installation art. He is member of several Ukrainian as well as international artists’ associations. Since 1987, he has participated in exhibits in Lviv, Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Warsaw, Krakow, Manchester, Belgrade, Kassel, Milan, Pisa, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle, Atlanta, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Tokio and Osaka. Since 1990, he has held 27 personal exhibits in Ukraine and abroad. Among them -- “20 Days Out of One Life,” “Project,” “Solo,” “White Nature,” “Transit 92-96,” “The Alphabet,” “Beautiful Life…?,” “Time. A Chronicle of the 20th Century,” “Triangle,” “Anti-Symmetry,” “It’s Not Autumn Yet -- a Bit of Déjà vu” and “PostScriptum.” He also took part in a Sotheby Benefit Auction organized by Maria Princess of Sachsen-Altenburg in Stuttgart in 2007. He is a recipient of numerous awards. His works are displayed in museums and private collection in more than 20 countries.
