An initiative to remind citizens and guests to the city of Lviv about the charms of equestrian transport appeared several months ago. Hence, “Weekend Riding” was organized — an event during which children and adults were able to ride on horses, to communicate with people who take care of horses, watch exhibition trials of equestrian schools from Lviv and even a theatrical performance.
Lviv artists also participated in “Weekend Riding” by taking the opportunity to draw primeval horses. The artists (Anna Atoian, Taras Beniakh, Tamara Voloshenko, Myroslav Dedyshyn, Olena Kamenetska-Ostapchuk, Solomia Kovtun, Ihor Maik, Uliana Nyshchuk-Borysiak, Olha Kvasha, Ostap Patyk, Natalia Pukhinda, Yurko Rymar, Serhii Yarotsky, Oleh Herych, Denys Struk, Iryna Fartukh and Ivan Turetsky) presented the results of their experience of communicating with these animals in an eponymous exhibition, which was opened on September 3 in the Lviv Palace of Arts (17 Kopernika str.).
As one of the organizers, art critic Natalia Kosmolinska, told The Day, “a horse is one of the first images that ancient man’s hand scratched on the wall of a cave.” For centuries horses worked, rescued, inspired, carried gods, kings, and were themselves demigods to primitive people.
In the 20th century, the technological progress of civilization “facilitated” horses’ lives, but also deprived people of the opportunity of direct communication with them. More than half a century ago, horses disappeared from the everyday lives of homo sapiens. Now we see horses on TV or computer screens. Or a picture in a frame on the wall of a museum...
The exhibition “Weekend Riding” in the Lviv Palace of Arts will last for two weeks.
