Video: Ghent altarpiece made of painted wooden eggs. Creativity of the Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Despite the fact that they are painted wooden eggs, they are Ukrainian Easter eggs, considered a symbol of Easter, Odessa artist Oksana Mas deals with them all year round. From hundreds of thousands of Easter eggs, Oksana Mas lays out installations and creates sculptures, with one of which she will perform at the Venice Biennale. True, it will not be exactly a sculpture: Venice will see several fragments of a huge, very large-scale project, on which Oksana has been working for a long time. Craftsman creates from wooden Easter eggs Ghent altarpiece brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck. It is noteworthy that to create the "egg" altar, Oksana uses very symbolically painted eggs: they depict human sins, and everyone is invited to take part in the painting. Therefore, the installation will feature Easter eggs painted by prisoners and nuns, children and seriously ill people, students and security officials, and even residents of foreign countries, both near and overseas. Everyone draws their own sins on the egg. So it turns out that the Ghent Altarpiece, depicting heaven on earth, will be reproduced from wooden Easter eggs depicting sins.
Saying that Oksana Mas's project is huge and large-scale, we are not exaggerating: in its finished form it is a structure 92 meters high and 134 wide, so it is not surprising that only a few of the 303 fragments will go to the Venice Biennale. To complete the work, the artist took more than three million eggs, or to be more precise, 3,640,000 wooden Easter eggs.
By the way, this project is not the only "egg" work of art by Oksana Mas. So, last year she made an icon of the Virgin Mary from Easter eggs, which she then donated to the national reserve "Sophia of Kiev". Also on account of her - other "egg" sculptures and installations, already known far beyond the borders of Ukraine.
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