Ecological Projects of Hanna Myronova

Author

Lamonova Oksana

a Ph.D. in Art Studies, a senior research fellow at the of Visual, Decorative and Applied Arts Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6937-421X

Ecological Projects of Hanna Myronova

Abstract

Hanna Myronova (creative pseudonym is Anna Myronova, Eng. – Anna Mironova) is one of the most active modern Ukrainian young artists. She works as a graphic (mainly in the technique of pencil drawing), painter, sculptor, but foremost as an authoress of cohesive artistic projects. In the works of the 2000s the artist has developed actively the topics to which she does not actually return: City, History, Memories/Memory. The Sprouted Past (2010) is the first one among the projects with ecological themes and issues. Then the Grass Shadow project is completed (2012, “Ya Gallery”, Kyiv). Since then the ecological theme has become the leading one for the artist at least for the next decade. The ”characters” inspiring the artist have been changed gradually over time. At first, Hanna Myronova has preferred plants (The Sprouted Past (2010), December (2011), Stem, Grass Shadow (both – 2012), Forest (2013), Heat (2014), Reed (2015), Above Me (2017), the series The Leaves have Fallen (2014)). At the same time, the artist’s interest in the expressive possibilities of light/shadow ”is gaining strength”. The projects Grass Shadow and Against the Light (2020), the idea of which has arisen during the quarantine because of the Covid-19 pandemic, is composed precisely on the ”cooperation” of plants / light / shadow. But the projects Heraldry of the Poor (2014) and Coats of Arms of the Memories (2015), as well as the art book In the Night (2019) are exclusively the authoress’s reflections on the artistic possibilities of light / shadow or darkness. The Quiet Project (2015) is arranged on the motifs of light and reflection. Soils have inspired the artist for likely more ambitious ideas – the exhibition Fragments? (2016), the Kaniv project Geotexts (2020), as well as also Drought project (2013) and the Islands series (2019). But water has become the most significant and capacious element for Hanna Myronova (the projects Drought, Heat, With the Stream (2018–2019), art books 17 Days near the Dnipro (2018), WATER IS ONE (2019)). The artist’s attitude towards it is almost mystical. At the same time, turning to environmental topics, Hanna Myronova reflects on even broader problems: course of Time, Time and Eternity, Harmony and Disharmony of the world. That is why a gradual withdrawal not so much from ecological topics as going beyond its boundaries is felt in the projects of the 2020s.

Keywords

Hanna Myronova (creative pseudonym is Anna Mironova), project, ecological art, Ukrainian art of the 2010s – 2020s.

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