Artist Petro Herman marks his 70th birthday with 70-piece exhibition

20.08.2010 08:15
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Ukraine-born, Moldova's Emeritus Artist Petro Herman has displayed his 70 finest pieces of work to celebrate his 70th birthday and also the 19th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, Info-Prim Neo reports. The exhibition, hosted by the Ukrainian Embassy's Culture Center in Chisinau, is the artist's tribute to feminine beauty, nature and religion. “I'm a thinker, I love nature, sunrises, the Nistru River which separates our nations and what I see I express in painting or sculpture”, says Petro Herman. The exhibition features the artist's favorites sculptures, like the ones to the poet Mihai Eminescu, hetman Ivan Mazepa, writer Stepan Oliinyk and poet Taras Shevchenko, which is also Petro Herman's dearest sculpture. “All the pieces of work are dear to me, each of them contains a piece of my soul and heart, but the sculpture of Taras Shevchenko is the most important to me. I don't think I could ever part with it”. The exhibition was inaugurated by Ukraine's Ambassador to Moldova Serghii Pyrozhkov, who said Petro Herman is an artist who belongs to both Moldova and Ukraine. “He is a very modest man and everything he does is exceptionally beautiful. Petro Herman has a God-given talent”, the ambassador said. The exhibition will run until September 20.