Garden. Lizaveta Herman, Anna-Mariia Kucherenko, Borys Filonenko

"The Garden" opens a new book series about Ukrainian art "You've Seen It Before" from ist publishing. The publication presents familiar images of prominent works of Ukrainian art from different periods and reveals dozens of dimensions of the garden, which has fascinated artists for centuries.

In the book, we will see the gardener Kazimir Malevich and the one who eats the fruits in Maria Prymachenko; we will immerse ourselves in the biblical plot of the Fall and the ornament of St. Sophia of Kiev; we will learn what Taras Shevchenko's gardens looked like not only in his poetry, we will enter the imaginary floral space of Kateryna Bilokur and we will walk along the map of one of the most prominent contemporary artists - Pavel Makov, who has been exploring the theme of the garden in his practice for many years.

Through more than 50 works included in the book, readers are invited to go through the unfolding of the metaphor of the garden: from the image of paradise to the idea of ​​the country as a garden where everyone is able to care for their own. After all, a garden is a place of dreams, visions and renewal. At the same time, it is a space of change, withering and decay.

The main part of the publication is devoted to traditional forms of art - painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied practices. However, the authors and the author of the texts - Lizaveta Herman, Anna-Mariia Kucherenko and Borys Filonenko - also pay attention to other media: photography, public art, video art and cinema, which have become especially relevant since the 20th century, when artists increasingly began to work with different formats and materials.

Each work is accompanied by an author's commentary, which becomes the key to understanding its significance for the history of art and opens up connections between other works.