{"id":23666,"date":"2025-02-04T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/naujienos\/the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-calls-for-contributions-to-the-conservation-of-maria-prymachenkos-artwork\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:20:44","slug":"the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-calls-for-contributions-to-the-conservation-of-maria-prymachenkos-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/news\/the-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art-calls-for-contributions-to-the-conservation-of-maria-prymachenkos-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lithuanian National Museum of Art calls for contributions to the conservation of Maria Prymachenko\u2019s artwork\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) and the Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Charity and Support Fund announce a fundraising campaign for the restoration and conservation of the Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko\u2019s artwork.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201eThe miraculous world of Maria Prymachenko, the legendary cultural heritage of Ukrainian culture, was badly hurt by war. The war-inflicted wounds of these fantastic animals, plants and human characters in her paintings are now treated by the professional specialists\u2019 hands at the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the LNMA. However, professionalism alone is not enough for dressing and healing these wounds, therefore I invite to show unity by contributing to another present for Ukraine. Let us revive the colours of Maria Prymachenko\u2019s world,\u201d Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, director general of the LNMA invites everyone to join the fundraising initiative.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The LNMA website and by our social media accounts will show periodical updates on the amounts of funds raised.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The wounds of the sunlit world\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

Early September this year the LNMA and partners evacuated a collection of 100 art pieces by Maria Prymachenko. Before the transportation the condition of the works was examined by our conservation specialists.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFifty-one of the pieces were mounted and framed under organic Plexiglas. Thirty-two works were only mounted and supported by a poor-quality backboard. Seventeen of the badly damaged works were sandwiched between different kinds of paper sheets. The original paint layer of these works is loose and flaking, there are fragmentary areas of lost paint, and multiple tears along the edges,\u201d Egl\u0117 Pi\u0161\u010dikait\u0117, the expert-restorer of artwork on paper at the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the LNMA, describes the harmful effects that were established before the transportation of the artworks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conservation specialists soon realised that part of these war refugees will require urgent help and exceptional attention, yet first of all they had to be safely moved to Lithuania. The works were \u201ctriaged\u201d and prepared for safe travel by placing them into special cases crafted for transportation. The framed works were placed into cases vertically, separating each with layers of shock-absorbing material. The damaged works were packed into folders of silk paper and stacked horizontally in a separate box. The adequately packaged artworks safely and successfully arrived from Lviv in Lithuania by ground transportation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The restoration will take time, expertise and resources\u00a0\u00a0<\/h6>\n

The restoration process recreates the original state of the work, focusing on the areas harmfully affected by time, environment and humans. This process of treatment and healing requires attention, expertise and resources.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe development of a detailed programme for the restoration and conservation of the artwork by Prymachenko begins with the technological examination of the paintings. Modern equipment and advanced methods of examination, such as FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence and micro-chemical analysis, allow us to identify the original paint binding material and the kinds of pigments originally used by the artist. Alongside, a morphological analysis of paper pulp is conducted, its acidity levels measured. Other examination technologies are photography in dispersed visible light and ultra-violet analysis, infra-red radiation scans,\u201d Dr J\u016brat\u0117 Senvaitien\u0117, director of the Pranas Gudynas LNMA Restoration Centre explains the complexity of the process.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the examination of the damage of Prymachenko\u2019s works, and given the artist\u2019s fragile technique, we can predict that the restoration process will be a complex, time-consuming and taxing task, it will also need resources,\u201d Dr Senvaitien\u0117 explains the complexity of situation.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The works by Maria Prymachenko are being restored by Egl\u0117 Pi\u0161\u010dikait\u0117, Paulius Zov\u0117, Ryt\u0117 \u0160imait\u0117, Jurga Bla\u017eyt\u0117-Denapien\u0117, Janita Petrauskien\u0117, Dalia Jonynait\u0117.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The LNMA and the charity organization Maria Prymachenko Family Foundation have signed a contract regarding the restoration of the artwork currently at the LNMA. The artworks have already been digitized by the Lithuanian Museums Centre for Information, Digitization and LIMIS the LNMA.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The artwork by Maria Prymachenko \u2013 the national Ukrainian legend\u00a0<\/h6>\n

The exhibition of Maria Prymachenko <\/span>I Give You Sunlit Art<\/span><\/i><\/a> opened by Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA on 15 October showcases 60 pieces from 100-work collection by the artist evacuated from <\/span>the Zaporizhzhya Regional Art Museum. The remaining works are taken care by the Museum\u2019s conservators.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition is the first of this scale presentation of the Ukrainian artist in Lithuania.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe visionary art of Maria Prymachenko has become an icon of Ukrainian culture. The self-taught artist is among the most cherished artists of the country. Her likeness has appeared on the country\u2019s coinage and stamps, her works decorate the fairy-tale books, and are featured in animation films. The artist\u2019s collections are held by sixteen Ukrainian memory institutions, meanwhile her art is exhibited worldwide,\u201d Dr Ilona Ma\u017eeikien\u0117, co-curator of the exhibition and director of <\/span>Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA sums up the artist\u2019s role.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the works under restoration process are available for viewing only during special events organized by the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the LNMA, they will be on public display at Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA in the spring of 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us revive the colours of Maria Prymachenko\u2019s world \u2013 let us preserve Ukrainian artistic heritage!<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fundraising campaign is organized by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The general partner of the fundraising campaign is Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Charity and Support Fund<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Information partners: LRT, JC Decaux Lietuva, ACM, Kautra, Forads, Sveikatos ekranai<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporters: BTA, Nova Post, Studio libre, Baltic Voice<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) and the Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Charity and Support Fund announce a fundraising campaign for the restoration and conservation of the Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko\u2019s artwork.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201eThe miraculous world of Maria Prymachenko, the legendary cultural heritage of Ukrainian culture, was badly hurt by war. The war-inflicted wounds of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"department":[69,77,81],"class_list":["post-23666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restauravimas","department-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art","department-pranas-domsaitis-gallery","department-vytautas-kasiulis-museum-of-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23666"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=23666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}