A personal exhibition “Spring – love – life” of carpet weaving works of Merited Artist of Folk Art of Ukraine Oleksandra Prenko is presented within the art project of the series of art exhibitions “Laureates of the Regional Award in Architecture, Heraldry and Vexillology and Decorative and Applied Art named after Yakiv Pauchenko” to the anniversary of an outstanding architect Yakiv Pauchenko. It is aimed at the promotion of the creative work of artists – laureates of the Award in the nomination “decorative and applied art” and presupposes organization of personal exhibition and publication of themed booklets.
    Prenko Oleksandra Ivanivnawas born on October 16, 1966 in Kaspiisk, the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.
Merited Artist of Folk Art of Ukraine (2009).
    A member of the National Union of Folk Art Artists of Ukraine (2009). A laureate of the Regional Award in Architecture, heraldry, and Vexillology, and Decorative and Applied Art named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “decorative and applied art” (2013). A high-achiever in the education of Ukraine (2000). A coordinator of Kirovohrad Regional Center of the National Union of Folk Art Artists of Ukraine. Graduated from Dagestan Art College named after M.A.Dzhemala, Makhachkala, Russia (1986), specialty artist carpet weaving master.
    Worked as an artist of carpet weaving at the enterprise of arts and crafts in Stavropil, Russia. In 1990, came to Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). For many years has been the head of the Folk Art Group of the Studio “Kylymarstvo” of the Regional Center of Children’s and Youth’s Creativity. Currently is the head of the club “Kylymarstvo” of the Center of Aesthetic Education “Rostok” in the educational complex “Mriia”.
    A participant of regional, all-Ukrainian, and international exhibitions, festivals, and competitions of decorative and applied art including International Festival “Doll World” (Lviv, 2010).International Festival of Culture and Art in Buyukcekmece (Turkey, 2012).
    The works are kept in the collections of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, Regional Art and Local History Museums in Kropyvnytskyi, in the private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    In 2005, got the Copyright Certificate of State Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for technological development of works of applied art “Carpet weaving doll“ (three-dimensional and planar).
    The current personal exhibition presents nearly 30 works in the technique of carpet weaving– tapestries, carpets, and three-dimensional dolls from the series: “The Nations”, “Ukrainian National Costume”, “History of Mankind”.
    The artist implements traditions of Ukrainian carpet weaving into the modern living space with her work. She creates decorative compositions basing on the experience of prominent masters of carpet weaving from the Baroque epoch to nowadays. At first glimpse, simple subjects of her carpets such as flowers and trees, birds and animals, ornamental rows of meanders in the shape of waves or teeth bear the imprint of deep, full of cosmogenic symbols, ancient layers of Ukrainian culture. A figurative language of the compositions is characterized by bright decorativism, filled with signs, which became modern bearers of folk tradition. The dolls created in the author’s technique fascinate with monumentality. They are reflections of the artist’s world view on the possibility of preservation of historical memory through clothes forms and decor. While using simple, traditional techniques, improving, and seeking new technological approaches, Oleksandra Prenko speaks about the possibilities of implementation of special artistic features of carpet weaving to the new generation.