Friends! The museum opened the inter-museum exhibition project “Reflection”, which presents more than 150 monuments from the collection of the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine, 8 works from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and 4 items from the collection of the National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”.
These are wooden molds decorated with carvings and made with their help to create independent works of art: molds for bread and cheese, molds for gingerbread, molds for stove tiles and the tiles themselves, boards, stamps and punching machines, punched fabrics and clothing elements.
“Research of folk art for the founder of the Museum Mykola Fedotovich Bilyashivskyi in the first decade of the 20th century. was carried out primarily thanks to the collection and study of original patterns of ornaments on various groups of products. Thanks to this vision, an artistic approach to the selection of works for the museum collection was formed, rather than ethnographic. Ornamentation in its various combinations was one of the main criteria for selecting museum objects. Attention was paid, first of all, to a variety of methods and types of decoration of products.
Thus, it was noted that gingerbread boards can represent a separate type of carved ornament, and punching samples should come together with cliché boards, with the help of which patterns were punched out on canvas. As a result, today we have the opportunity to draw a more complete picture of the development of artistic crafts of Ukraine using the example of the collected monuments,” said Nataliya Denysenko, curator of the exhibition, researcher of the National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine.
An exhibition of liturgical objects begins, including a carved horse cross. XVIII – beginning 19th century from the Kyiv region, the shoulders of which have inserts made of embossed fabric; silk cover for discus beginning 19th century from Chernihiv region, hemmed with a bump; forms for large and small proskur – service liturgical bread, dating back to kin. XIX – beginning 20th century
In addition, fragments of a pit of the XVIII-XIX centuries are presented. mainly with plant motifs, which was used for sewing priestly robes, in particular, the front of the felon. Also shown is a form made of wood with the image of the Crucifixion of Christ and parts of the Easter form (manger) made by folk craftsmen.
Rare exhibits are terracotta tiles of the XVIII-XIX centuries. from Kyiv region and Poltava region.
Also interesting is the section of the exhibition, which tells about the activities of master punchers in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the development of industrial textiles in the 20th century. In the exhibition, you can see tools for making towels and the works of artists with professional education who created clothing models and developed sketches for metric fabrics.
The exhibition will last until March 3, 2024.
