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1964 - Ukrainian stained glass window destroyed by the Russian authorities: A group of Ukrainian artists, including designer Alla Horska, is working on a stained glass project for Shevchenko University in ...

Ukrainian stained glass revival

• 1964 - Ukrainian stained glass window destroyed by the Russian authorities:
• A group of Ukrainian artists, including designer Alla Horska, is working on a stained glass project for Shevchenko University in the city of Kyiv. She takes care of the sketches and the prototype. As soon as the work was assembled, the Soviet authorities, judging it hostile, destroyed it.
• Why this racket around a simple stained glass window?
• The stained glass window depicts Shevchenko, a 19th century Ukrainian poet, with his fist raised and opposed to the domination of Ukraine by the Russian Empire (already!). In the poet's arms is Ukraine, in the guise of a young woman.
• Artists are sanctioned:
• Alla Horska has to leave Kyiv to find work.
• In the 60's, Horska was a member of an activists group who seight to preserve Ukrainian culture and denounce the abuses of the Soviet Union.
• She was monitored by the KGBand found murdered in 1970 (no comment).
• 2022 - The work is alive:
• I wanted to revive this work, inspired by the preparatory drawings.
• The text around the central character speaks of oppression and freedom in poetic language
• Taras Shevchenko protects a young woman dressed in Ukrainian colors
• A dove of peace, Magritte style, brings a message from Taras.
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