The plane that flew away Print

One of the symbols of 2020 was a plane that would take Him (Lukashenko) somewhere, and then there would be champagne until the end of the world. I don’t even know how many people have gotten a tattoo of an aeroplane. In 2020, I had the idea to make “Aeroflot” candy a symbol of protest. But I was afraid. New symbols are multiplying like kittens in our country, without any sense. Here I painted a funeral in New Orleans as a symbol of the easy road. Some cry, others jump. That is how it is supposed to be. Rest in peace, to hell with him. I am the sovereign of a country addicted to symbols. I have not created symbols for 421 days now. I work in the folk genre "drawn carpet". This is a frameless scenic work painted on linen and fitted with wooden slats at the top and bottom and a hanger at the top. In Belarus, a “painted carpet” is considered to be a genre of decorative and applied art. Kitsch even. The name itself suggests that it is a cheap, hand-drawn alternative to Gobelin tapestries, which peasants saw in the pal- aces of the nobility, but they could obviously not afford such luxury. So folk artists painted the “carpets” using cheap, non-professional paint on ordinary rolled black primed canvas. The heyday of the “painted carpets” in Belarus coincided with some of the most horrible moments of the 20th century. World War I, the Revolution of 1917, the civil war, and the Soviet famine. The first attempt at forming an independent state. The “painted carpets” featured fanciful depictions of the biblical paradise, as well as bucolic, love, and battle scenes. Folk artists copied illustrations from the Bible in a rather unskilful manner and had no scruples about making their own inter- pretations of the works of famous painters that they saw in reproductions, postcards, and in the press.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:6 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:11.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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