Oksana Stratiichuk’s artwork is created in the Mokulito technique. This style was developed in the 1970s by Ozaku Schisi, professor of Tama Bijutsu University in Japan. The technology is based on the lithographic printing, but uses plywood for a matrix, allowing for new artistic effects. The exhibition displays not only Mokulito artwork, but, most interestingly, a wooden printing form, which, according to Stratiichuk is good for no more than twenty prints. The artist uses beech as a basis for the matrix and special lithographic ink.
“At first I did not even understand what it was. It’s so interesting,” one visitor has said in regard to Lytvynenko’s paintings. Indeed, it’s unusual to see a portrait of blooming tree buds. At the same time, seeing it one ponders over the transience of such moment in nature. Indeed, we can only catch a glimpse of the trees’ blossoming in the spring. Triptych ART Gallery manages to freeze the unusual moment of the very beginning of the nature’s awakening and to show it to the audience.
“The title of the exhibition is ‘Equinox,’ and it reflects the idea of the nature’s renewal – after the painting by Oleksii Lytvynenko. The September festival of harvest and fertility is embodied in a graphical series by Oksana Stratiichuk,” Maryna Shynkaruk, the gallery employee, comments on the idea of the exhibition. “We see portraits of flowers and fruits, which the authors weave into the highest points of the natural equilibrium and convert to a metaphor for the circle of life itself.”
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