Start date
2009-04-02
Start time
18:00
It is very difficult to describe Roman Jenenko in a short biography note because he was an extraordinarily colourful character. His talent was reflected in at least two genres – music and art. He was also a person who could’ve been named as “an artist of life”. Everyone, who had a chance meeting Roman, knows what that means, for he was the type of person who tries to make every moment that is spend with him, a special moment. He described his art as naïve but an insightful recipient of his drawings can, with no doubt, see that his naivety is intentional and conscious. The naivety is a mean of expression.
Jenenko developed his own, completely original style of colourful drawings referring to traditional and religious motifs.
“Pictures”, as Roman called his works, always had a detached mysterious epigram written in Ukrainian although it wasn't the language he used every day. He was raised in a Russian-speaking tradition like most Kiev inhabitants. These subtitles - “signatures” of the drawings – are Roman's separate, poetic work. His drawings were appreciated and shown on several exhibitions in Kiev, Warsaw and Lublin.
Jenenko's second area of activity was singing. He studied at the Kiev Institute of Culture where he met and collaborated with the band Drewo. He spend most of his life on research of the musical aspect of traditional culture. He was an outstanding and creative singer, immediately recognizable.
He was connected to the “Muzyka Kresów” Foundation from 1992 where held workshops, appeared at conferences and inspired with ideas.
Roman Jenenko was born in Murmansk on the 18th of June 1971, died in Kiev on the 6th of April 2006.
During the opening there will be a performance of Roman Jenenko's friends from Poland and Ukraine singing traditional Ukrainian songs (bands: “Z drogi”, “Dziczka” , “Drewo” and “Seluky”).