In the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” (Kyiv), the second stage of the intermuseum project “The Milky Way” was opened. Oleksandr Feldman’s Museum took part in it.
The combination of the items of Trypillian ceramics from the collection of Oleksandr Feldman’s Museum, one of the exhibit of which – Trypillian Madonna – became a symbol of this cultural event, and the works by contemporary artists in the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” demonstrates the uninterrupted connection between the antiques and the modernity; it illustrates the reflection of ancient symbols in modern art.
“Today, when Ukraine hosts Eurovision – one of the main cultural festivals of Europe, we would like to demonstrate that Ukrainian culture – both ancient and modern – has very close connections with the other European civilizations. It is one of the important aspects of our cultural self-identification. And exactly this intermuseum project is aimed at demonstration of the formation of this connections, their importance and influence on modern art,” Ukrainian MP, collector and philanthropist Oleksandr Feldman noted.
The peculiarity of the exhibition in Ivan Honchar Museum is the reproduction of the line of identity of our culture using the language of symbols and ornamental compositions. It is clearly noticeable through the images of the sacral world in the decoration of the exhibits of the Trypillian culture from the collection of Oleksandr Feldman’s Museum. It seems that they come up form sand ‘dunes’ of exposition space and freeze in the air.
“The exhibition presents the unique artefacts from the collection of our museum – Trypillian Madonna – Eneolithic sculpture of a mother holding a child in her arms, as well as the majestic painted tableware, the elegant ornamentation of which reflects the world view of our remote ancestors,” the CEO of Oleksandr Feldman’s Museum Oleksii Artiukhit told.
The symbolic performances of Moon, ‘tree of life,’ stylized serpent, rhomb, triangle, etc. pass through the ornaments of Trypillian ceramics and the patterns in the works of applied art of different nations right up to the present time. The works by Alex And, Petro Antyp, Ihor Babii, Volodymyr Bakhtov, Oleksandr Diachenko, Yehor Zihura, Mykola Zhuravel, Oleksii Malykh, Yurii Pikul demonstrate the connections with the Trypillian culture, while meeting the demands of the modern dynamic world.
“It is important for us to demonstrate not only the identity of Ukrainian art and cultural code, but also the noticeable connection with European art and culture, which is sensed in the master’s works,” one of the exhibition’s curators Svitlana Stoian says.
The museum exhibits from the collection of Oleksandr Feldman standing on sand dunes and land hills, the video art by Anastasiia Loiko, the decorations by Oksana Tarasevych and the scent “Steppe” by Oleksandr Perevertailo create the presence effect in the vast expanses of Ukrainian steppe. For the first time, a famous Ukrainian architect and designer Serhii Makhno took part in the organization of exhibition space.
The exhibition is open for everyone in the National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” at the address: Kyiv, 19, Lavrska Str (29, Ivana Mazepy Str.)
