The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life named after Klymentii Sheptytskyi invites you to the first comprehensive exhibition of folk icons on glass from the collection of Ostap Lozynskyi.
The opening of the exhibition “Fragiles for Glass” will take place on Saturday, January 6, at 3:00 p.m. in the exhibition hall of the Museum (1 Chernecha Gora Street).
Ostap Lozynskyi (1983-2022) collected one of the richest modern collections of Ukrainian icons on glass from Pokuttia, Hutsul region and Bukovyna. True, he was lucky not to start from scratch. The basis of the collection was laid by his parents, Taras and Roksolyana Lozynski, well-known connoisseurs and collectors of Ukrainian art from Lviv. By the time Ostap became seriously interested in collecting, their collection numbered seventeen icons. Unlike his parents and collectors of the older generation, Ostap acquired almost all his icons through second- and third-hand: in antique shops, bazaars and flea markets, from antique sellers on the Internet, as well as from older collectors and their descendants. He bought ancient icons with the money he earned from his own icon painting, so in this way he managed to collect almost ninety more works. Today, Ostap’s collection consists of more than a hundred monuments and is, perhaps, the most valuable and largest complete collection of icons on glass.
It is important that the exhibition is exhibited in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Lviv named after Klymentii Sheptytskyi. In the last years of his life, Ostap interacted a lot with the Lviv Skansen, planned to join its team and work on its development after his illness.
The exhibition was created under the curatorship of art critic and icon painter, head of the department of scientific, educational and exhibition work of the museum, Roman Zilinka.
The opening of the exhibition is scheduled for January 6 (Saturday) at 15:00 in the exhibition hall of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Lviv named after Klymenty Sheptytskyi (1 Chernecha Gora Street).
The exhibition of icons “Fragile for glass” will last from January 6 to May 26.