“Хрещення”, мішана техніка, полотно, дошка / “Baptism”, mixed media, canvas, wood , 30х40 sm.
ivankademchuk
“Taking Jesus down off the cross”
egg tempera on chalk gesso
«Зняття з хреста»
яєчна темпера на левкасі
Five months later after the liberation of Izium city by the Ukrainian counter-offensive, many horrors of Russian occupation were revealed after the exhumation of bodies found in mass graves.
A mass burial site with more than 440 bodies located, many of them show signs of violence, with hands tied behind their backs and even ropes around their necks. A lot of bodies have not been identified yet. 99% of the exhumated ones have evidence of torture and violent death. Families and children have also been found in the graves. One particularly heartbreaking example is the death of the Stolpakov family. 6 and 8-year-old girls all died buried with their parents under the rubble of their apartment. Their neighbors from the apartment building who also did not survive are likely buried in the nearby graves, with the same date of death given.
Other bodies that have been discovered bear visible signs of torture.
After the liberation of over 388 settlements in the region, the world has to know the truth about Russia’s war crimes committed there during the occupation.
These atrocities are nothing but genocide. Russia should be held accountable for everything it committed as a terrorist state.
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…
