Last night in an exhibition gallery PROUNI “Praise plahte”. The exhibition features paintings, original book and run the schedule, the West-Ukrainian icons, objects of material culture

Plahta - the name of the fabric, which in antiquity was made TimeZero Ukrainian woman explaining clothes, used primarily as a decorative fabric. Figure plahty - squares, rectangles, arranged in a strictly staggered and separated by bands, usually with different patterns.

Last night in an exhibition gallery PROUNI «Praise plahte» - a joint project of the Gallery, the Museum «Media Arts Complex pressing», and the Kiev Museum of Russian Art.

Exhibition «Praise plahte» united Ukrainian folk art, masters of the Ukrainian avant-garde. On display are works by Mary Sinyakova , Basil Ermilova , Boris Kosareva , Narbut Georgia , David Burliuk , Mary Priymachenko, Vadim Möller , as well as the modern painter Nikolai Matsenko.

Curators The exhibition presents a visual study of traditional ornamental forms, exquisite arabesque that of folk art (icons, tiles, carpets, etc.) are borrowed the avant-garde artists, and software-based primitive, archaic plastic .

To Ermilova, Kosareva, Sinyakova floral ornament became not a decorative element, it has become a basic means of forming. The use of traditional ornament for the design of advanced books (publication Velimir Khlebnikov, Bojidar, Catherine Neymaer, etc.), in separate works of art, etc. is not the least of which was connected with a powerful wave of revival of national culture, where artists enthusiastically mastering specific to Ukrainian folk art techniques and images.

Interesting parallels with the beginning of the twentieth century, found in the contemporary cultural situation in Ukraine: in the exhibition included works by Nicholas Matsenko based on the game of state symbols and traditional ornamental elements, which in its original form can be seen in icons Western Ukraine, carpets, tiles, many embroidery.

The exhibition presented paintings, original book and run the schedule, the West-Ukrainian icons, objects of material culture.

Exposition «Praise plahte» Gallery PROUNI (CSR «Winery», 4 th Syromyatnichesky trans., 1, p. 6) is open until September 18, 2009.

Material prepared Elena Vladimirova, AI

Sources: proungallery.ru , slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse , artinvestment.ru

P.S. About Mary Priymachenko can be read on the forum artinvestment.ru .