The Art Museum will attempt to assess the heroic legacy

In the National art Museum of Ukraine on 17 December at 18:00 exhibition opens "Heroes. Attempt to inventory". This reports the press service of the Museum.

Our heroes live. Thanks to them, the "heroism" of the book concept turned into a lively, pulsating flesh, and the company came to life. We know the person, and the time - shaking hands. They are in our daily lives. And some of them still so early to go forever. Our heroes are not subject to inventory.

But in the National art Museum of Ukraine is convinced that it is now talking about heroes and heroic is as urgent as ever. Therefore, in the project "Heroes. The attempt of the inventory was to critically examine together with the audience "heroic heritage", sometimes shocking, which is stored in the Museum collection.

For the first time in the last few years, a permanent exhibition on the first floor will change dramatically. The idea of updates appeared in the beginning of 2013 - as the need for a modern presentation and interpretation of Museum collections. This movement has agreed to support a long-standing partner of the Museum - the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine. As an expert was invited leading specialist museums in Germany - Dr. Michael Fehr. And lasted stock work in Ukraine, the Revolution began. The context and society has changed. This has prompted a relevant topic that can be explored through art collection. New task faced by a group of curators, led by Dr. From: to consider the heroic Pantheon of Ukraine in all its breadth, impartially, both the background and the cause of everything that happens today with the country - and to do it together with the audience.

The Project "Heroes. Try inventory" explores the image of a "hero" and his creation. The inventory of the collections of the Museum were identified works, one way or another associated with the topos of the "hero", "Holy", "Martyr" or "feat". Among them are images of characters, real and mythical, those whose actions are feat or profane, folk and grown in test tubes ideological laboratories. The exhibition will be about 180 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the middle ages to the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition will be located on the 1st floor and partially occupy the space of the stairs between the 1st and 2nd floors. One of the hall will remain free for open dialogue and reflection on what heroes Ukraine needs today.

The exhibition project is carried out jointly with the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine, in the framework of the project of the Goethe-Institut in Eastern Europe and Central Asia "time Machine Museum": www.goethe.de/ukraine.

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