Visiting museums, theaters, and exhibitions is an integral part of becoming design professionals, helping to enrich knowledge, broaden horizons, and inspire young designers. In early April 2025Second-year students of the educational program “Fashion Design”, together with teachers of the Department of Art and Fashion Design, Associate Professors Galyna Kokorina and Iryna Davydenko, visited the exhibition “Sergey Paradzhanov. Authenticity of Freedom” at the Museum of Theater, Music, and Cinematography of Ukraine.
The exhibition was dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian and Armenian film director, screenwriter, artist and one of the brightest innovators of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990). His unique style combined folklore, poetry, painting and theater. This is an example of an artist who, despite political repression and totalitarian control, was able to create a new unique language in art. His work became a symbol of the struggle for national identity and self-expression.
The exhibition featured original costumes from the movie "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," as well as props from the set, posters, and sketches by the film's artist Georgy Yakutovych. It also featured rare footage of working moments from the films, reproduced from negatives from the collection of the Theater Museum, as well as an original collage by Sergei Parajanov. These exhibits gave students the opportunity to delve deeper into the atmosphere of the film and see the unique artistic style of its creators.
Costumes for the movie "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"
Exhibits from the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
Sergey Parajanov left a powerful artistic legacy, influencing world cinema. In 2024, he was posthumously awarded the title of "National Legend of Ukraine". His creative path is a resistance to totalitarianism and the struggle for the freedom of Ukrainian culture.
It is this kind of cultural experience that forms in students a sense of Ukrainian mentality, historical memory, national self-identification and creative self-expression; it encourages them to implement historical creative experience, successful Ukrainian and foreign artistic practices, not only in professional activities, but also in the formation of their own self-awareness.
06.05.2025
