Book Maria Prymachenko. Glory to Ukraine
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This publication includes more than 100 original works by Mariia Prymachenko from the collection of the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv) and the Ponomarchuk family collection (Kyiv). The exhibition also includes the artist's personal belongings - an apron, a women's shirt, panels embroidered by the artist, and scissors she used to work with, provided by the Prymachenko Family Foundation. The texts were created by Peter Doroshenko (foreword), with an introductory article by Oksana Semenik, in which the researcher examines the multifaceted work of Maria Prymachenko, from mythology and folklore to her universe, from irony over the Soviet system to the Chernobyl disaster, from ceramics to embroidered paintings (which are little known even in Ukraine). About Maria's unique world, as well as her influence on her family and the broader artistic context in Ukraine, the current world (exhibitions in Luxembourg, Dresden, paintings at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Swiss Open Art Museum, etc.) The habits and everyday life of her great-grandmother are discussed by her great-granddaughter Anastasia Prymachenko in a conversation with Peter Doroshenko, director of the Ukrainian Museum in New York and curator of the exhibition of the same name, which will run in New York from 7 October 2023 to 7 April 2024.
This is Maria Prymachenko's first exhibition in North America and the first full bilingual exhibition catalogue, which aims to showcase the distinctive work of one of Ukraine's most prominent artists to an international audience.
Maria Prymachenko has always been our strength and our glory in Ukrainian. And since the beginning of the Great War, her name and work have gained worldwide recognition. The exhibitions of her works sound like an important symbol, like a greeting from many hearts: glory to Ukraine!
