The display brings together works of Belarusian painting from the collection of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, united by a conceptual representation of summer, summer heat and other related imagery, diversely interpreted through different genres and styles.
The semantics of the sun as an image, in this case, is interpreted through a diverse palette of semantic shades: from the archetypal folkloric solar symbol and its modern plastic interpretation, sunlight as an emotional “colour” of the pictorial language spectrum, to its narrative, cinematic properties, presented in an abundance of subject/narrative compositions.
From classic socialist realist paintings, to sentimental, romantic, dreamy sunrises and sunsets, impressionistic glints of sunlight on the grass of Yaugen Zaitsau, Vital Tsvirka, Uladzimir Stelmashonak, to abstract symbolic, lyrical compositions of Aleg Skavarodka, Mikalai Kazakevich and others, reflecting summer as a time of eternal youth, to more non-representational canvases, where the figurative range unites a variety of interpretations, transforming the display space into an experience of both the curator’s and the viewer’s respective readings.
