In August 2023, the ArtArmor exhibition “Spiritual Victory” was replenished with three new icons written on armor plates: “Protection of the Holy Virgin”, “Holy Family”, and “Savior in the Tomb”.

 

This series of works proves that we constantly pray for the defenders of Ukraine, who are fighting for the freedom, independence and right of existence of Ukrainians. Each work is written on the armor plate that saved the lives of our soldiers.

 

Currently, the collection contains 15 icons written on armor plates that saved the lives of defenders of Ukraine at the front. Earlier, 12 of these icons visited the churches of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Roman Catholic Church. In May of this year, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphany of Kyiv and All Ukraine consecrated these icons in St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv.

 

We are grateful to the icon painters who only recently joined the ArtArmor charitable art project but have already created such masterpieces.

More and more artists from different parts of the world continue to join the ArtArmor charitable project.

 

In the summer of 2023, on the eve of the opening of our exhibition in Berlin, the German artist Ute Hillenbrand provided the ArtArmor project with her art object created from the armor plate provided by us.

 

“To protect life” – these are the words depicted by the artist on the plate, which saved our military man, who is currently protecting Ukraine and the whole world from the aggressor country. This work has already become part of the exposition of the ArtArmor project.

 

It was the work that was shown for the first time at the Polish Institute in Berlin, where the grand opening of the ArtArmor exhibition took place on July 18, 2023. Ms Hillenbrand became one of the honored guests of the event. We are very grateful to her for supporting our project and Ukraine as a whole!

The well-known manufacturer of protective equipment and military equipment, NP Aerospace, donated a batch of high-quality protective equipment to the ArtArmor charity art project. In turn, ArtArmor presented NP Aerospace with 2 icons written on armor plates.

 

Cooperation became possible thanks to Vadym Prystayko, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Great Britain at that time. It was the person who contributed to the acquaintance of the company and the charity project.

 

NP Aerospace became interested in ArtArmor’s activities and decided to donate a significant amount of equipment to the art project free of charge. It is aimed directly at the front. Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine especially thanked NP Aerospace for supporting ArtArmor.

 

In addition, there was a meeting between Vadym Prystaiko and the team of NP Aerospace, during which Mr. Prystaiko handed over the icons written on the armor plates to James Kempston, CEO of NP Aerospace.

 

One of the icons was painted on the NP Aerospace plate, adding symbolism to the gift the ArtArmor art project made to the company.

 

Now these objects of spirituality and art will be located in the headquarters of the company in Great Britain and Canada.