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Lviv Diary Series

Vlada Ralko

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Basic information
ID
Г-V-2878
Author
Vlada Ralko
Name
Lviv Diary Series
Date of creation
2022
Country
Ukraine
Technique
mixed technique
Material
watercolour ballpoint pen marker paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
29.7 x 21
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
symbolic art
Plot
russia-Ukraine war
Provenance
Gifted by Vlada Ralko
Information about author
Author
Vlada Ralko
Artist's lifetime
b.1969
Country
Ukraine
Biography
Vlada Ralko was born in 1969 (Kyiv, Ukraine). In 1987 graduated from Kyiv State Art School. 1988–1994 – National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (Fine Arts Department, coordinator – professor V. Shatalin). Member of the National Artists’ Union of Ukraine from 1994. In 2019 received the He for She: Women In Arts Award. 2021 – order "For Intellectual Bravery" by the Independent magazine "Ї". Author of research texts, poetry, essays, and critical articles about art and its connection with philosophy and politics. Artistic practices include painting, works on paper, and spatial objects. Lives and works in Kyiv. Currently lives and works in Berlin.
Object description
Language has a political nature. Additionally, language makes a person human. Resistance to the aggressor's onslaught can only be carried out by the human that speaks. Ukraine and the rest of the world are facing an evil that has not yet been appropriately named and therefore has not yet been punished. Following the methods of the Soviet Union, russia is constantly violating the dictionary because a Soviet person is not supposed to have their own words. They have been replaced by propaganda slogans that legitimize the inhuman and sadistic genocide of Ukrainians. Speaking one's own language is the artist's task. I create these drawings during the war because I do not want to be silent. (V. Ralko).
Inscriptions
On the front side of the artwork, in the lower right corner, there is an artist's signature: Владаралко. On the reverse side, in the upper right corner, there is an artist's signature: Владаралко / ЛШ / 2022
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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