At peace with the world
Published 25 May, 2009, 13:07
‘Make peace, not war,’ that’s the message of an exhibition of artworks by Abkhazian and Russian painters opening on May 27 at the Frunze Cultural Center in Moscow.
Entitled ‘Russia-Abkhazia’, it contains over a hundred works featuring nothing but breathtaking scenery of the southern region on the Black Sea and its famous resorts Gagry and Pitsunda.
Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia in 1991. Last August, following the notorious Georgian military campaign in neighbouring South Ossetia, Russia recognized both Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
In fact, it’s the first full-scale exhibition by painters from the newly-independent Abkhazia in Russia.
‘We’ve deliberately decided to stay away from the subject of war in favor of the beauty of Abkhazian nature, landscapes and the hospitable people who live and work there. It’s interesting that both Abkhazian and Russian painters have depicted the nature of Abkhazia,’ Abkhazian painter Maria Pilia told Ria Novosti news agency.
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