![]() ![]() Since the beginning of 2018 the artist has been busy gathering the personal stories of the soldiers and to portray their sacrifice respectfully. The tenderly and precisely drawn faces are delicately present in this room where time so mercilessly wreaked havoc. It is as if you are in a memorial space, a kind of mausoleum, but without the physical remains of the deceased. The artist also placed a small wire cage with candlelight in the room. These objects may remind the viewer of candleholders. Each bowl shows the face and dates of birth and death of a recently fallen Ukrainian soldier. In the coach house little papier-maché bowls made of newspaper are placed in white display cases. Imagine that you find yourself in this room. The (digital) pilgrimage brings you to this decaying space, where all sorts of invisible and hidden stories are whirling about and where the installation of Masha Trebukova blends in naturally yet is conspicuously present. This is why the curators have put together a digital pilgrimage and teaching program for schools, universities, and other interested parties (see further information below). ![]() At the moment the project is closed because of the corona restrictions. By means of the 14 Stations of the Cross of Jesus this art route provides a way to focus on the present suffering of our fellow human beings by challenging the viewer artistically, spiritually and socially. Together with the installation Dead Soldiers of Ukraine by Masha Trebukova, this space forms Station 7 (Jesus falls a second time) of the current Art Stations of the Cross 2020 in Deventer. It was completely filled with dried-up roots of plants that had long since died (see the right corner in the photo above). Last year Peter-Frans de Graaf, artist and owner of the shop, opened it up to make it accessible for the project of the Art Stations of the Cross. The old coach house was boarded shut for decades. You walk through the shop and the garden, you enter the fading building and you find yourself in a different world. ![]() Most probably he himself was born in ‘Huis De Reiger’ in 1562, where the art gallery is established. The story is told that it used to belong to the parents of the most important Dutch composer of the Golden Age, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. One such place is the abandoned coach house behind the Art Gallery/Shop Droom & Daad in Deventer, the Netherlands. In old cities there are always hidden places full of history. ![]()
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