The table deals with the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has claimed at least 10 thousand lives
A portrait of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, made with five thousand bullet casings stands out in a multimedia exhibition that is presented in New York until February 4 and which addresses the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, which since 2014 has been charged at least 10 thousand lives.
As part of the exhibition the "Five elements of war", the Ukrainian artists and activists Daria Marchenko and Daniel Green present a 2.1 meter portrait of the Russian ruler, whose appearance can change, according to the light, the "propaganda image" of a calculating dictator "to show the" human nature in times of war, "according to a statement from the Ukrainian Institute of America.
The protagonist of the portrait, baptized "The face of the war", is identified in the exhibition as the "man behind the conflict" that keeps the Russian-speaking people of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions against Kiev.
In addition, part of the exhibition is a giant grenade that contains television cameras and rolls of film movies, which have been called "The brain of war" and refers to the "media front of the war" .
Two paintings with female figures also made with bullet casings and whose silhouettes are formed from the maps of the continents, seek to illustrate the relationship between oppressors and the oppressed and remember that women are victims of violence during conflicts.
The sample is completed by the portrait of an eye made up of cartridges and military insignia and representing the role of spectator of the rest of the world in this conflict, and the painting of a naked torso and two oil drills as a sample of the raw materials of current conflicts worldwide.
The art director of the Ukrainian Institute of America, Walter Hoydysh, said in the statement that they expect visitors to the exhibition, which includes items collected in the line of battle and oil and acrylic paintings, can understand in depth the conflict in Ukraine and its implications not only in Europe but also in the United States.
According to the United Nations, more than 10,000 people, including combatants and civilians, have died in eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in the spring of 2014.
