COLOSSEUM (House of Culture "Iskra", Mariupol)

The ruined palace of culture "Iskra" was embodied by cosmic narratives. The most striking examples were mosaics by Valery Lamakh, Ernest Kotkov, and Ivan Lytovchenko. In them, cosmic, iconographic, and ethnic motifs were combined. But however bold experiments in visual language may be, these and similar works are limited by their own materials and the plane on which they were created. This fundamentally contradicts the main features of the cosmos — infinity and movement. Mykhailo Skop personally "blew up" the mosaic, giving it cosmic freedom and the opportunity to be interpreted outside the framework of exclusively Soviet Ukrainian art. Cinders of fireclay pour in a turbulent stream, stars ...View all