The Ukrainian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai
Expo..26 paintings..telling stories that changed the face of the world
Natalia Ivanyuk's paintings at the Ukraine Pavilion at the Expo.
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The Ukrainian painter and plastic artist, Natalia Korv Ivanyuk, conveyed a number of important inventions and pivotal stations in the history of her country, through a group of plastic paintings.
Through 26 paintings that occupied the main lobby on the second floor of the Ukraine Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Ivanyuk (born in 1985) depicted decorative symbols from which to weave tales about the history of a number of Ukrainian inventions, which left an imprint in various scientific, literary and artistic fields.
The visitor can know about each painting by scanning a code placed behind it, which leads him to read a brief overview of its subject, which provokes him to search for information related to it, which represent luminous signs in the history of human societies.
Ivanyuk adopted the art of hollowing out or cutting paper in drawing her paintings, an art that represents an invention in itself, as there is no original painting for those drawings, but rather it was formed inside the paper by hollowing out with scissors or a knife.
The paintings tell stories that enable their owners, with their innovations, to change people's lives for the better, with the systems, tools and techniques they created, which were established to develop devices that moved humanity to advanced stages of work, production and creativity.
Including a painting on the history of the Tribelia dynasty and civilization, which is the oldest known European civilization.
Its urban remains were found in a Ukrainian village with two-storey houses, which indicates an engineering superiority and urban skill 6000 years ago, and ceramic collectibles were left showing their ingenuity in the art of decorations and inscriptions.
There is a painting that talks about the end of the siege of Vienna in 1683, after Yuri Franz Kolchowsky volunteered to help the coalition forces defeat the Turks, as he left Vienna and reached the Duke of Lorraine, Charles V, and asked for his help.
The inhabitants of Vienna considered Kolchutsky a hero, and the city authority gave him 300 sacks of Turkish coffee beans, which the Ottoman forces left in their camps, so he decided to discover the way they worked, and established the first coffeehouse in Vienna, to spread cafes later in Paris and the rest of Europe.
Another panel in Ukraine's pavilion highlights the invention of the world's first electric tram by Ukrainian engineer Fedor Beirutsky, which he managed to operate in Saint Petersburg in 1880.
The invention convinced the Siemens brothers, who were two of the most important business developers, to use it to operate the first electric passenger tram line in Berlin in 1881.
It was also occupied by the Russian Empire in Kiev in 1892.
Another panel recognizes the importance of Ivan Bolog, who is credited with inventing X-ray technology used in medicine and imaging of human organs, for his extensive research.
Buluj developed a lamp known as the Puluj lamp, or "cold light", and by using it he was able to detect images of a hand and fingers, and to show the inner human cells.
Bolog's inventions were not limited to X-rays, but he was also famous for the invention of a device for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, which was shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878.
He also co-founded several electric power plants in Austria and Hungary.
Another painting by the artist Ivanyuk tells of the physicist and mechanic Joseph Timchenko, who managed at the end of the 19th century to invent a set of techniques and tools that opened the way for other scientists and developers to break into new worlds in art and life, including cinematography.
The explanation in the painting's code indicates Timchenko's success in laying the scientific basis for the idea of videography, when he invented the way the kinescope or kinescope worked.
Another painting in the pavilion depicts the period of joy awaiting hope for a life of goodness and abundant sustenance, which the new year brings, and was translated musically by Ukrainian composer and musician Mykola Leontovich in the hymn “The Voice of the Bells.”
The melody and lyrics tell an ancient folkloric tale about the way the Ukrainian people greet the new year, which begins in April with the spring season.
• The lifting of the siege of Vienna establishes the spread of coffee culture in the streets of Europe in 1863
• St. Petersburg's tram passes through Berlin... and a cold light reveals the inner human cells.