Recently Euromaidan Press wrote about the project “Back to School” by the Mural Social Club, which brought new colors to school buildings around Ukraine for the start of the new school year. Now we want to keep you updated about the murals which appeared on ordinary buildings during last year.
They are part of the project Art United Us. It is an international project that collaborates through artistic and creative mediums with communities to raise public awareness and attention to the problem of war, aggression, and violence. 200 walls will be decorated during the next 2 years, starting from Kyiv and without boundaries around the world.
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“This project is not just about producing a series of walls (murals), but instead, the creation of an entirely new history. As we know, the mural is a tremendous weapon and art will save the world,” say the organizers of the project.
Author: Javier Robledo (Spain)
“The work is devoted to the ability to enjoy simple things, to see a glass half full, but not half empty. It’s about the fact that having nothing you can have everything.”
“This is the work about a boy who sits near a sea during sunset – the time when you start to dream about distant countries located on the other side of seas and oceans. And you want just to fly away.”
“The open window on the work is a metaphor for opening your mind and heart to new ideas and concepts, spiritual development, and balance.”
Author: Fabio Petani (Italy)
“The work consists of two conceptual things. The first is a Mallow – traditional Ukrainian plant. The second is fluorine – a chemical element discovered in 1886. The translation of fluorine comes from Latin and means a stream of light. So the light is another common thing for both sides.”
Author: Jake Aikman (South Africa)
“The artist intuitively works with scale, focus, and repetition to create pictures which cover mastery and ambiguity of an isolated moment.”
The mural combines the role of Cossacks in the historical and cultural development of Ukraine and the consequences of human impact on the Black Sea
The huge wall tells a surreal picture-story about the historical and contemporary context of a neighborhood in Kharkiv, the second-largest city of Ukraine. The composition is filled with a variety of Ukrainian traditional characters, each of which illustrates this area.
Author: Paola Delfin
“I believe besides any difficulty in life we all have a shelter to turn up to, I painted this wall thinking of that idea, I come from a country which is a beautiful place but is going trough some difficult moments, same as Ukraine, so no matter which kind of trouble is going on, there is always a place of peace, even if everything seems dark, I chose to paint this black and white and cut it in two pieces, because I believe beauty can present itself in the darkest moments, is just how we choose to see things, which can change it all, is a matter of perspective.”
Authors: Innerfields
Author: INO (Greece)
His work depicts a ballerina dancing over a bomb and has the title “instability.” Inspired by the recent situation in Ukraine, the painting is criticizing the failure of people on earth to coexist.
Author: Li-Hill
This piece speaks to two influential discoveries within the last two centuries.
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