Fundraising for Ukraine

 

I decided to join the efforts of my dear friend Darya and her colleague Iryna in their fundraising campaign for Ukraine and selling my artwork as well, in the gallery below.

Below you can find their statement and the link to Darya’s website.

We, Darya Tsymbalyuk and Iryna Zamuruieva, are selling our artwork to fundraise for our homeland, Ukraine.

If you are interested, email the artist, tell them the name of the piece, transfer the money and we will make sure the piece is shipped to you. The shipping might not be immediate, but we will do our best to send it to you asap. Thank you.

You can send money here:

Account holder: Iryna Zamuruieva
SWIFT/BIC: TRWIGB2L
IBAN: GB14 TRWI 2314 7042 1427 63
Sort code: 23-14-70
Account number: 42142763
Wise’s address: 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ, United Kingdom
Payment reference: StandWithUkraine

Miriam Colombero

By selling this artwork, I would like to express my full support for the Ukrainian people. Eight years ago, January 2014, I was in Florence when I started to work on this mini-series of pictures to make sense of my bewilderment for the pacific Maidan Square manifestations and the following armed guerriglia after the police crack-down. I was in touch with my friend Darya, artist and activist in Maidan at the time, and her witness touched me deeply. Some weeks later, 20 Feb 2014, Russia invaded Crimea and annexed it. After such a paradoxical ending, the war in the South-Eastern region of Donbas broke out. I’m selling the coloured paintings starting from 450€, while the black and white ink paintings from 250€. You can contact me on contact@miriamcolombero.com

Dimensions

2014 Maidan Square: 70×50 cm  SOLD

2014 Kyiv Barricades: 30×60 cm

2014 Saturn: 70×80 cm

To see the original post of the Maidan project on Behance click here

These paintings below are made with china ink on paper. They are part of a series of landscapes which I saw during my three-day bike ride from my home town to the seaside through the Italian Alps in North-Western Italy. My intention was to show the sequence of unspooling landscapes which we witnessed during the ride. I started to make sketches while we were on our journey and then completed the series for an exhibition I was asked to do at one local bookshop

Dimensions

15×15 cm

Darya and I met in Duino, Trieste (Italy) in 2007 when we both won a scholarship to attend an international school called the United World Colleges. She was the first person my age I had ever met with a fierce artistic spirit and a rigorous drawing and painting practice. She also taught me the basics of draughtsmanship, giving me the mindset and structure to understand how to do it. She is also the person I always have in mind whenever I paint. Some of her paintings I recall depicted Ukrainian traditional costumes’ patterns and what struck me then was how meaningful these colorful geometries were to her, as an integral part of her personal and national identity. Supporting Ukraine right now not only means of course to help the country defend itself, its identity and its people better, but also to encourage a form of resistance against the likes of oppressive super powers that make up our post-imperialist global society.

 

 

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