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EXHIBIT "Coming back home"

"Small ship, raise your flag.

Little ship, return home.

With the wind of the sea, on the sea wave,

through the foam of the sea, under the wing of the albatross.

Small boat, come home »

(Beata Kurkul)

On May 2, 2019, the exhibition «Return to Home» was opened in the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum as part of a charity project to assist and support prisoners of war.

The date of November 25, 2018 entered the history of today, as the sun of open aggression of the Russian Federation against  Ukraine. At 7.00 am, a Ukrainian squadron of the Navy Boats of Ukraine Berdyansk and Nikopol and the « Yana Kapu» raid launched a planned transition from the Odessa city port to Mariupol. It was the beginning of the confrontation of Ukrainian sailors with the Russian border guards, which started firing at the defeat in the Kerch Strait near the Russian bridge built by Russian invaders and they began firing at the defeat. During the planned retreat of Ukrainian ships after the shelling, a small armored artillery boat Berdyansk was already damaged in neutral waters. It was a planned shot at being impressed, as they shot at the armored capsule where the crew were. 24 Ukrainian sailors who admitted themselves to be prisoners of war, referring to the 3rd Geneva Convention (International Document Governing the Treatment of Prisoners of War) were arrested in the course of the further confrontation. As of today, legal proceedings against Ukrainian sailors are ongoing  in  courts of the city of Moscow. The Russian court extended their detention in Lefortovo detention center until July 24-26, 2019.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine regarded Russia's aggressive actions against the navy of the Armed Forces as a violation of the norms of the UN Charter and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

«Returning Home» is an artistic, charitable project for the assistance and support of prisoners of war.

 As of today, the courts of the city of Moscow are proceeding with a case against Ukrainian sailors, the Russian court has extended their detention in Lefortovo detention center until July 24-26, 2019.  For more than two months, artists from all over Ukraine have draw  paintings for the gift and support of twenty-four Ukrainian sailors who are now prisoners of war in the Russian Federation The model was taken by Beata Kurkul's "Small Ship, Come Home", painted by the artist in the early days of Captivity of Our Sailors, and appeared on social media on November 29th. "This work conveys all  spector of  emotions that we  , the Navy sailors, are feeling right now," the work received. Creating the works, each artist interpreted the seascape, which depicts three ships sailing in the stormy sea. Twenty-four artists: Olga Klochko, Tamara Romanova, Julia Deineka, Victoria Popova, Tatiana Brazhkina, Natalia Zabolotskaya, Dmytro Kravets, Victoria Popova, Igor Trokhimenko, Martha Nirkova, Nina Stadnik, Inna Tarasova, Alina Ofyvarken, Alina Sifovarkskaya Korolenko, Oksana Trigub-Milashevich, Maryna Olkhova, Yaroslav Semenenko, Victor Belous, Anastasia Molodchykova, Marina Bondar, Sergey Grigoriev, Olena Stadnik, Galina Otchich reproduced a "copy", but in their own style and emotions. The official opening of the exhibition "Returning to the Home" was held on February 23 in Kyiv at the Kosy Caponir (Kyiv Fortress). Before the opening of the exhibition different methods of drawing determined who got the picture of a particular artist. In addition to Kiev, the exhibition was exhibited in Odessa, Dnipro, and Kremenchug. The initiator of the opening of the exhibition in Kropyvnytskyi is the mother of Roman Mokryak - Natalia Kravchenko .Two of Kirovohrad's POWs are in Lefortovo: Boat Commander Berdyansk, Lieutenant Roman Mokryak and Senior Sailor Andriy Artemenko.

At the exhibition «The Return to the Home»   exhibit 24 (twenty-four) drawings  and other works of art created by artists from all regions of Ukraine to support 24 Ukrainian POWs.

Ukraine knows its heroes:

- Crew of the Small Armored Artillery Boat «Berdyansk»:

-Commander  Lieutenant Roman Mokryak;

-hike commander of the 2nd rank captain Denis Gritsenko;

-senior sailor Yuri Bezyazychny;

-Lieutenant Bogdan Golovash;

-senior lieutenant Vasily Soroka;

-sailor Andrew Eider;

-senior sailor Andriy Artemenko.

-Crew of small armored artillery boat "Nikopol":

-commander, senior lieutenant Bogdan Nebylitsa;

-lieutenant-captain Sergey Popov;

senior lieutenant Andrew Drach;

Lieutenant Vladislav Kostyshyn;

senior sailor Vyacheslav Zinchenko;

sailor Sergei Tsibizov;

senior sailor Andrew Oprysko.

- The crew of the Yani Kapu raid:

-commander, foreman of article 1 Oleg Melnychuk;

-3rd grade captain Vladimir Lisovyi;

-midshipman Andrey Shevchenko;

-midshipman Yuri Budzilo;

-senior sailor Mykhaylo Vlasyuk;

-senior sailor Viktor Bezpalchenko;

-senior sailor Vladimir Tereshchenko;

-sailor Yevgeny Semidotsky;

-senior sailor Vladimir Varimez;

-the head of 2 articles Sergey Chuliba.

Works were also provided for the charity exhibition that will be held during the opening of the exhibition

In addition, at the exhibition "Return to the Home" visitors can buy a card with a reproduction of paintings and write a letter to prisoners of war, support with a warm word, give confidence that they are not forgotten!.All proceeds from the sale of the leaflets will be sent to support prisoners of war in Russia.

The paintings will travel to Ukrainian cities until the prisoners of war return home and will be donated. In the near future the exhibition "Return to the Home" will be presented in the city of Sumy, Lviv, Khmelnitsky and in those regional centers where the sailors come from.

The exhibition at the Regional Art Museum will be open until May 8, 2019.

The staff of the Kirovograd Regional Art Museum joins in the wish of good health, endurance, harmony, faith in themselves, reliable friends, forces, undeveloped naval sailors and your families who believe in you, as the whole of Ukraine believes and is waiting for the return of their heroes.

P.S. The works of Lithuanian artist Beata Kourkul look similar to the photo, but these are the graphic works that the artist creates on the tablet screen (computer graphics, in fact - the original, as these are computer files that can be opened and printed in any size)

 

Olena Stepanok - Head of the Department of Scientific and Educational Work of Kirovograd Regional Art Museum.