Banksy’s Graffiti from Ukrainian Hostomel` to be Preserved at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Museum Reserve
The graffiti by British artist Banksy, which he painted on a mutilated building in Hostomel` after the city was de-occupied from the Russians and which someone tried to steal by cutting it off the wall, will now be stored in an open storage facility at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve, according to the reserve's official social media page.
‘The graffiti by the British artist Banksy, which someone tried to steal by cutting it off the wall in Hostomel`, is now in storage at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve. It is a work that the street artist made on the wall of a house in the newly de-occupied Kyiv region. It depicts a woman with a fire extinguisher in a curler on a chair in front of a burnt window,’ the statement said.
The Lavra clarifies that Banksy's work will be kept in the ‘open funds’ of the repository in a place accessible to the public.
‘Banksy created this and other works to draw the world's attention to Ukraine and the cruelty of the Russian occupiers. Now his graffiti is preserved where the struggle for Ukrainian culture, history and values for the future continues,’ the statement said.
The national reserve added that next to the work of the British artist of the twenty-first century, it will be possible to see the ancient Russian ‘graffiti’ of the eleventh century - a caricature of one of the builders of the Assumption Cathedral.
