Beauty out of Ashes — Iconographic art for the Lenten Age from Lviv, Ukraine with Father Kenneth Tanner.
Artists mentioned in the show:
- Arsen Bereza @arsenbereza
- Ivanka Demchuk @ivankademchuk
- Khrystyna Kvyk @khrystyna_kvyk
- Sergii Radkevych @sergii_radkevych
- Alinah Rubets @alinahrubets
- Ulyana Tomkevych @ulyanatomkevych
- Denys Tymchyshyn @art_tymchyshyn
- Lyuba Yatskiv
- Khrystyna Yatsyniak @khrystyna_yatsyniak
More on the artists with more Instagram links at Father Kenneth Tanner’s Instagram posting.
On the Border of East and West: Searching for Icons in Lviv, Ukraine
“Ivanka Demchuk and her husband, Arsen Bereza, who makes sacred art from found objects, stop by Iconart when I am there. Demchuk has brought a painted panel showing Christ before Pilate. The painting is astonishing in its sense of transcendence. The mockers of Christ occupy a sepia-toned moment of sacred history, torn like a scroll to reveal the eternal whiteness of divine purpose underlying human affairs.
The city of Lviv Ukraine has passed between the powers-that-were seven times in recent history. There is a sign posted above an information board outside my favorite Catholic kitsch art church, where a map shows Russian tank and troop positions in the eastern war zone. The text, in Ukrainian and English on a blue-yellow background, reads: Pray for Ukraine. They have more than enough modern martyrs to remember.” More…
