USA. UOC Representatives Participated in Opening of Exhibition “Glory of Ukraine: Icons of the ХІ-ХІХ centuries

On June 18 at the Museum of Biblical Art MOBIA "MOBIA" (New-York, USA) an exhibition "Glory of Ukraine: Holy Icons of the ХІ-ХІХ centuries" was opened, where museum objects from the collection of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical Cultural Reserve were presented.

The exhibition of the Ukrainian Icon in the USA is taking place at the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine in the framework of the International exhibition project "Ukraine to the World" and will be held from June 3 2010 till May 2011 in three museums of the USA: Museums of the biblical art MOBIA (New-York, USA), International Center of Meridian (Washington, Columbia district, USA) and Jocelyn Museum of Art (Omaha, Nebraska, USA). 

Taking part in opening of an exhibition were representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church:  Deputy Chair of the Department for External Church Relations His Grace Alexander, Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy and Chair of the Synodal Department "Church and Culture" hegumeness Seraphima Shevchyk.   

The project organizers are the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine and the Foundation for International Arts and Education (Bethesda, Maryland, USA) at the support of the Ukrainian Embassy in the USA and the Embassy of the USA in Ukraine.   

The exhibition presents the icons of the XІV-ХІХ centuries, coming from the different regions of Ukraine - Volyn, Halychyna, Kyiv, Poltava and Chernihiv regions and give a possibility to observe evolution of the Ukrainian sacred art starting from the post-Byzantine period till the period of rise of the national art - the age of baroque, fully and comprehensively displaying all variety of the Ukrainian icon painting.    

The icons present a wide circle of iconographic variants of the sacred art. There are images of Christ, Theotokos, the Twelve Great Feasts, the icons of the most popular selected saints, copies of the wonderworking icons of Ukraine. A separate group of exhibits are the records referring to the history of the oldest monastery in Eastern Europe  - Kyiv Caves Monastery, the shrine of the orthodox world. 

The exposition also presents church appliances - crosses, communion cups, tabernacles, liturgical cloths and books in precious frames, expanding our view of the orthodox traditions and rites and represent most fully the national cultural heritage preserved.   
 

According to the website of the National Historical Cultural Kyiv Pechersk Reserve