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Liubov Datchenko
Artist from Ukraine
Born on October 18, 2000, in Dnipro.
In 2017, she graduated from the Chemical and Ecological Lyceum (Dnipro) and enrolled in the Fine Arts program (Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine).
In 2021, she enrolled in a master's program in Art Graphics (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland).
In 2019, she became a member of the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine.
She conducted master classes for children and adults in Bulgaria in 2019.
She has participated in exhibitions, competitions, and cultural festivals in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Poland. Her achievements in the field of art began in childhood. She has won awards in competitions for pysanka, painting, and vytynanka.
She works on the theme of Slavic mythology.
At the beginning of the war, she was studying in Poland, but now she is in Ukraine.
Exhibitions
08.2024 – “The Shadow of Forgotten Time. The Mythology of My Ancestors” Museum of the Opole Village, Opole, Poland
08.2024 – You Can Touch It. Częstochowa. Poland.
07.2024 – Diploma works of graduates of the Faculty of Arts, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. City Art Gallery. Poland
02.2024 – Creatures from myths live here... Museum in Racibórz, Racibórz. Poland.
06.2023 – The breath of strange creatures. Community Cultural Center. Dobrodziec, Poland
05.2023 – Slay the dragon. Hanna Bakula's “No Ba!” Art Gallery. Prudnik, Poland.
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Werewolf
Drawing by Liubov Datchenko
70 x 100 cm • Paper, Soft pastel, Toned paper
Location:
Dnipro, Ukraine
In Slavic mythology, a werewolf is a person capable of transforming into a wolf, crossing the boundary between the world of humans and spirits. Werewolves can be born or enchanted. A person born under a certain planet became a natural-born wolf.
He is a mediator between nature and human consciousness, a reminder that the primal element lives in every person.
Two entities are a symbol of the internal struggle between instinct and reason, light and darkness.
An image of rebirth, initiation, transition from one state to another. It is a reminder that every renewal requires the destruction of the old “self.”
A werewolf is not so much a creature of fear as a metaphor for human changeability. It embodies the fact that man always stands on the edge – between good and evil, between reason and instinct, between earth and sky.
There is a werewolf in each of us: that which changes when night falls, or when the soul encounters the real truth.
Exhibitions 08.2024 – “The Shadow of Forgotten Time. Mythology of My Ancestors” Museum of the Opole Village, Opole, Poland
The paper cutout was used for a poster for the exhibition.
Location:
Dnipro, Ukraine
About the artist
Liubov Datchenko
Artist from Ukraine
Born on October 18, 2000, in Dnipro.
In 2017, she graduated from the Chemical and Ecological Lyceum (Dnipro) and enrolled in the Fine Arts program (Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine).
In 2021, she enrolled in a master's program in Art Graphics (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland).
In 2019, she became a member of the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine.
She conducted master classes for children and adults in Bulgaria in 2019.
She has participated in exhibitions, competitions, and cultural festivals in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Poland. Her achievements in the field of art began in childhood. She has won awards in competitions for pysanka, painting, and vytynanka.
She works on the theme of Slavic mythology.
At the beginning of the war, she was studying in Poland, but now she is in Ukraine.
Exhibitions
08.2024 – “The Shadow of Forgotten Time. The Mythology of My Ancestors” Museum of the Opole Village, Opole, Poland
08.2024 – You Can Touch It. Częstochowa. Poland.
07.2024 – Diploma works of graduates of the Faculty of Arts, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. City Art Gallery. Poland
02.2024 – Creatures from myths live here... Museum in Racibórz, Racibórz. Poland.
06.2023 – The breath of strange creatures. Community Cultural Center. Dobrodziec, Poland
05.2023 – Slay the dragon. Hanna Bakula's “No Ba!” Art Gallery. Prudnik, Poland.
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