From the very first days of their studies, International students at the Kursk State Medical University begin to learn the Russian language, get acquainted with speech etiquette, culture, traditions and customs of our country.
This time, the students of the IMI KSMU visited the creative space “Veranda”, where they visited the international exhibition of modern patchwork “Forest”, “Water”, “Red Book”. The project of the EcoImprovGroup, created by Yulia Reshetnikova-Mirabito, a Russian artist living in Italy. Every six months, the group comes up with a new theme, to which they dedicate a collection of artworks.
The main theme of the exhibition is ecology, a careful attitude to nature. Using panels made in the patchwork technique of improvisational sewing (that is, without patterns and templates), more than 30 authors from all over Russia, Belarus, and Italy call for protecting the Earth, preventing thoughtless deforestation, water pollution, and the disappearance of animals, birds, and plants.
The authors of the exhibition touched on three crucial environmental topics – deforestation, water pollution, and the disappearance of animals, birds, and plants. “The Pain of the Ocean”, “The Brown Bear”, “The Barcode of Water” – the titles of the paintings speak for themselves.
The students were particularly attracted by the large canvas “Flamingo” (the author’s painting by Olga Burlachenko from Irkutsk), the sewn white crane “Sterkh” by Svetlana Fokina, and the panel of the master of patchwork sewing, a member of the “Apple” club of the Regional House of Folk Art, Irina Echеistova “Peony thin-leaved – a plant of the Red Book”.
In a conversation with the organizers and teachers, the students supported the message of the exhibition and emphasized that the preservation of nature is one of the most important tasks of modern civilization.