By Irène Languin
(Tribune de Genève)
Shelter but also light.
This is the dual ambition of the exhibition hosted by the MAH (Geneva Museum of Art and History) at the Rath Museum until April 23.
Entitled “
From Dusk to Dawn
”, it brings together around fifty major Ukrainian paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries on the theme of the night.
The hanging is part of a series of projects launched by the National Art Gallery in Kyiv, one of the oldest and most important institutions in the country, to celebrate its centenary in 2022. Another part of the collection is shown simultaneously at the Kunstmuseum Basel under the title “
Born in Ukraine
”.
Arkhyp Kuindzhi (1841-1910), “Night by the Don River”, 1882, oil on canvas.
MYKHAILO ANDREYEV/kyiv NATIONAL ART GALLERY
Since the beginning of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, it has seemed obvious to the MAH, like to other European museums, to participate in the safeguarding of an artistic heritage in danger.
“
Destroying or confiscating cultural property is part of the arsenal of war
”, underlines Samuel Gross who assures in Geneva…
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