The virtual exhibition of digital collages by Olha Krasnopolska "2022 Birthday of Christ" is presented on the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation (February 24).
    Olha Serhiivna Krasnopolska was born on August 21, 1983 in Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi). She studied at the Kirovohrad Children's Art School named after O.O.Osmуrkin. She graduated from Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University (now the Central Ukrainian State University) named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko, majoring in "Pedagogy and secondary education methods. Fine and decorative and applied arts" (2005).
    She works as the head of the fine arts department of the Children's School of Arts in the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Since 2022, he has been the curator of the art project of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum "Art Studios" on the topic: "Portraits of contemporaries on the background of war".
    Participant of regional and all-Ukrainian art exhibitions. She presented personal exhibitions of painting and graphic works in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum Personal exhibition of works by Olha Rizdvyanska-Krasnopolska "Half of a head" (2020) and the regional universal scientific library named after D.I.Chizhevsky (2022) in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, art gallery "VashART" in the city of Oleksandria, Kirovohrad region. (2020) and the art gallery "Our City" in the city of Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region. (2021).
    Her work, characterized by philosophical reflections, saturated with deep folk rituals and tinted with literary images, fascinates with mystery, symbolism and at the same time emphasized realism of images with open colors.
    In the first days of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, she collected things for fighters and displaced persons. Then she began to fight against the war with art - to the sounds of air raids, she created digital collages on a tablet based on panoramic photos of her hometown and Ukrainian symbols, nine in twenty days, and later three more, and presented them with author titles and poetic stanzas on her Facebook page.
    12 months of war – 12 digital collages – 12 stories of human emotions, thoughts, hopes and faith in the Victory of Ukraine. And another + 1 "Mother" collage...
    This is how the artist Olha Krasnopolska herself commented on her creative works in numerous interviews with the Kropyvnytskyi mass media at the beginning of March 2022:
    "Instead of agricultural machinery, military equipment from Mordor drives through our fields. But she has awakened a majestic power that nothing can stop. Run, orcs. "Awakening". Collage. New collage. A little anxious today. The "tree of life" grows from human blood. When will you get drunk, Moscow bastards? The Ukrainian song washes the enemy off the face of the earth. On the collage, the choir named after G. Verovka is probably performing the song "Roars and moans the Dnieper is wide". Yelka's grandmothers sing. Birds fly. Ukraine will prosper" (March 7, 2022.Grechka)
    "After the first days of the war, in which I ran around delivering everything I could to the volunteers, I thought that I had nothing left to give, I didn't know what else I could do. And I remembered that I am an artist. There are a lot of ideas in my head, but there is no time to lay out the canvases and paints, because for this it is important to concentrate, adjust, so I grabbed the tablet, opened Photoshop - I started making collages, because it is fast and they can be easily distributed on the network. Art therapy is primarily for myself and for my friends, because they can empathize through these collages. Well, and art has great power... An incredible amount of aggression has accumulated in a usually kind and prudent woman. I really wanted to teleport and set fire to Moscow, so that the glow of the fire could be seen from all parts of the world. And here Dzhokhar Dudayev's statement about the Ukrainian sun was also spread on Facebook. So I waved... I want to raise our Scythian women to battle, and some elements of Chernyakhiv culture..." (March 8, 2022. Persha elektronna gazeta).
    "I thought that you should do what you know how to do, now there is a war in the information field, people need these pictures to remind us that we have a thousand-year-old culture, symbols, signs, songs, towels and all this should be distributed on social networks ... I thought that the Ukrainian sun should burn Moscow and made such a first collage ... I personified Stepan Chobanu with the symbol of our region - the Scythian eagle. The photo shows our city and it protects it (ed. The "Eagle" collage appeared after the death of pilot Stepan Chobanu, who on February 28 in an Su-27 aircraft engaged in air combat over Kropyvnytskyi, distracting Russian aviation. He was attacked by missiles) ... I really like the talisman symbol called "Scythian women", five of them stand near the local history museum. And it seemed to me that this enemy equipment, which is now driving through our fields, that it has awakened an ancient power in the earth, which has been hidden in the layers of the earth for thousands of years, and these "Scythian women" are coming to the defense of our country" (March 15, 2022. Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi)
    Video story "Kropivnytskyi artist Olga Krasnopolska creates collages dedicated to the fight against war" (March 15, 2022. Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nBUS3Xvzvg&ab_channel
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of thirteen digital collages by Olha Krasnopolska, made in 2022, and the author's poem "2022 the birthday of Christ", the symbolic name of which became the title of the personal exhibition.