Keywords
contemporary art in museum, installation, Yanka Kupala,
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Voinitski P. V., Zlatkovic E. M. Art installation from glass and steel with elements of museum collection for exposition of State literary museum of Yanka Kupala // The Art of Eurasia, 2018. № 2 (9). P. 98-104. URL: https://doi.org/10.25712/ASTU.2518-7767.2018.02.008.
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Abstract
The paper is devoted to the art installation «Way of Poet» created by the authors for the State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala (Minsk, Belarus) in 2014. It is a work of contemporary art that represents the very last moments of life of People's poet of the Byelorussian SSR Yanka Kupala. At the same time, it is a fragment of the Museum exposition dedicated to the tragic end of the Poet's life, and includes the real exhibits related to the death of Kupala from the Museum collection. Other components of the installation are steel, glass, sound and spotted electric light. Yanka Kupala (1882 – 1942) was the classic writer of Belarusian and world literature, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and literary Belarusian language, the spiritual and moral leader of national rebirth in Belarus. On 28 June 1942 he tragically died in unexplained circumstances, having fallen into the staircase opening at the 10th floor of the hotel «Moscow» in Moscow. The installation is not only a dramatic counterpoint of the exposition time-line, but it also serves as prosaic equipment for demonstrating the Museum’s items. As a result of long work on the sketches, the vertical composition of the object was invented and embodied. It resembles a stairway that composed of glass sheets-steps. The paper reveals the concept of the work, its connection to specific historical events, as well as its original artistic features. Particular attention is paid to the specific use of glass as the main material of the installation.
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