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Marachkin Exhibition in New York

The Belarusian Museum of New York announced a personal art exhibition "Dreams" by Alyaksey Marachkin. The exhibition opened with a reception for Marachkin on Sunday, February 15, 2009.

Alyaksey Marachkin has been a member of The Belarusian Union of Artists since 1977. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1966. His works have been presented in Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia.

He experiments with different genres in painting and graphic drawing. His art is characterized by associative allegoric vision and understanding of Belarusian history and traditions. He has made a string of vivid portraits of prominent figures of Belarusian history and culture, "Painted Rugs", series "Stories and Legends of Belarus", paintings with social and political connotation, still lives, landscapes

Mr. Marachkin is a founding member and the first chairman of the art society "Pahonia" (Chase), created within The Belarusian Union of Artists (The BSH), which has awarded him the silver medal of Belarus’ Rebirth. For his remarkable achievements in national renaissance and promotion of cultural heritage of Belarusian people, he has been awarded the state Medal of Francisak Skaryna.

Source: http://belmuseum.org , the web-site of the Belarusian Museum in New York

This article appeared in
Belarusian Review, Vol. 21, No. 1
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