Sheet «Modern Ukrainian Art. Tightrope Walker. Ihor Khersonsky» according to the project «Personalized stamp»

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The painting by Dnipro artist Igor Khersonskyi, «The Tightrope Walker» (2023), was born at a time when the entire country was searching for a balance between danger and hope. The figure depicted on the canvas, walking over the abyss, holding a pole in his hands, is not just a tightrope walker. It is the personal voice of every Ukrainian man and woman, who tells about life on the verge of constant danger, but does not lose faith and the loudness of intonation. The blue space around is the detached, isolated reality we all live in now. The person in red is the personal thing that keeps each of us from falling: interpersonal relationships, hope, everyday grounding rituals. She walks as if balancing between the past and the future, between death and rebirth, between the ideological and the intimate.

The Tightrope Walk is a story about the collective journey of Ukrainians, which finds its extension in personal stories every day. It is about those who keep the world in balance with their own courage. And it reminds us that true strength is not in standing firm, but in not falling when the ground gives way.

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