Paradise of Colors: Ukranian artists in Heraklion
By Maria Daskalaki
An exhibition of painting with the title “Paradise of Colours” took
place in Heraklion at the Gate of Saint George, in Plateia Eleftherias.
The exhibition lasted from the 11th till the 20th of November and
included work of artists from Upper Ukraine. Among those participating
were: Gladgagia-Gladi, Zosan, Kampis, Kiskourno, Koudfiavtseva,
Daria, Diatlof, Doubour, among many others.
The representative of Ukraine’s Artistic Unions in Greece
and also consultant of the cultural demonstrations of the Ukrainian
embassy Mrs. Eirina Kravtsiouk says:
“With the collaboration of the Local Public Services we have organised
this exhibition, advancing a programme by our embassy of peoples’ interaction
and co-aquaintance, We believe that the peaceful coexistence of people is achieved
faster and easier through art. So we correspond with the Municipalities, they
propose to us some locations and if they are proper –like the Gate of
Saint George or, in the future, the Basilica of Saint Mark– the exhibitions
take place. The welcome of the local people here was very warm, but in every
city or island we go to, the natives have to say only good words. In the exhibition
there is the Greek Corner, dedicated to Greece’s colours and landscapes.
The painters were invited from the Municipalities and had stayed here in the
summers. When they have to return to their hometowns, they leave us their work,
and they send us their next jobs, landscapes that they had seen, or pictures
that they had left inside them upon leaving Greece. They point out that they
dedicate their work in Greece with love”.
And as Mr. Mixalis Aggelakis (President of the Hellenic Chamber
of the Visual Arts, member of the Ministry of Culture and Municipality
of Athens Committees on the Visual Arts and General Secretary of
the Association of Graduates of the School of Fine Arts) commented:
“We are invited through art on a magial journey, to the Fine Art of Ukraine,
and thus to get acquainted with this most beautiful country with a high level
of culture of the finest people, as the Fine Art is a special language which
reflects a language of ideas, feelings, the problematics of artists in particular –and
also most important– the whole nation in the present historical moment”.
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