Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Warm City Residence
Curated by Vitalii Hrekh
Acrylic paint on concrete wall (dyptich)
7 x 6 m
2015
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21st century, Ukraine and Russia are at war
This artwork shows four circles and two color swatches showing the palette used in the mural.
According to certain statistics drawn from both oficial and non official sources of information and from personal conclusions reached in-situ through conversations, the first blue and red pie chart represents the people of Ukraine. Blue symbolizes pro-Ukranian individuals and red symbolizes pro-Russian individuals.
The second diagram shows eight eighths in primary, secondary, black and white colors, each one laid face to face with its complementary. This conjunction represents coexistence, proving that antagonism is an inevitable condition for life. Moreover, it also represents a pizza with eight flavors, alluding to diversity.
The third diagram is a “violence calculator”. Pure blue and its gradient symbolize a light energy related to a peaceful situation. The pure red and its scale refer to a heavier energy related to violence.
The fourth diagram symbolizes the Sun, 100% full of color and full of “the light”. It represents those individuals who oppose war and violence. They are therefore in direct contact with “the light” compared to those who do support war and violence.
However, diagrams are beautiful geometric shapes that study numbers in a given context and do not represent war or violence, neither reality.
The reality is that there is a war.