The journey of the scientist Dr. Leonardo and his future lover, the beautiful Alceste, to the Sloboda Switzerland. Maik Yohansen

Timed to the 130th anniversary of Maik Johansen, the art book “Fundamentals” invites you on a journey through Sloboda Switzerland together with the scientist Dr. Leonardo, the beautiful Alchesta and the main character of the work — a landscape — painted by the artist Polina Kuznietsova. Among the real toponyms of the Kharkiv region on the map created by cartographer Dmytro Vortman, the line of the characters’ probable route is also marked. Playful and serious at the same time, Johansen’s paradoxical novel is accompanied by comments and notes from one of the first researchers and the best connoisseur of Maik Johansen’s work, Yaryna Tsymbal.