Three works from “The Road Diary” by Matvei Waisberg combined in a panel of three murals in Babyn Yar
Matvei Waisberg made his entire “The Road Diary” on a black background. He began creating it in Poland, where he had to stay in the first days after the Russian invasion.
Then there were Prague and Munich. All in all, about 100 works, full of reflection on what is happening and the intertwined destinies of the Jewish and Ukrainian people on the road to freedom.
Three works from “The Road Diary” — Menorah, Star of David with the inserted trident and Angel of Armed Forces of Ukraine — the artist combined in a panel of three murals, which became a new art object of Babyn Yar.
Other works from “The Thin Red Line” cycle are on display nearby at the Avangard Sports Complex, where a Russian missile hit on March 1 last year and killed six people. The sports complex is located on the site of a former Jewish cemetery on the grounds of the memorial. The traces of destruction have not been eliminated here, and now this complex is a place of remembrance of already modern war crimes.
Paintings from Waisberg’s “The Thin Red Line,” exhibited as part of the project “Exodus: The Path from Nonexistence,” were painted during the defense of Mariupol. The defenders of the city in the cycle are represented as ancient heroes, maimed but unbroken.
It is a powerful and large project that fits into the new concept of Babyn Yar — the transformation from a necropolis to a place of memory.
