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On April 26, 2006 designers start exhibition-action of black and white posters, devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy. This exhibition is memory about people, who fulfilled their duty with honor. These posters are the dedication to firemen, who burnt in the first night and who threw graphite away from the 4th reactor roof almost with their hands; to soldiers, who worked on the roof of the blown-up reactor without radiation meters, when "15 seconds were enough for each of them for the whole remaining life" (V. Sidelnikov); to the chemical protection service, who manually created maps of radiation fields; to helicopters pilots, who threw graphite and concrete to the radioactive hell, in spite of threat of the hard forms of the ray disease; to academicians of Russian Academy of Sciences, who personally installed radiation meters near the radioactive walls of the power plant; to all the relief workers, who fulfilled deadly dangerous task - relief of radiation explosion results; to all the heroes and victims of April 26, 1986.
This is the exhibition-action of actual art about every man's personal response for the surrounding world destiny.
It is the exhibition about unity of people, who are able to survive morally in extreme conditions of human-made catastrophe.
In April the whole country believed the saying that "April is merciless month" (T.S. Eliot). April 26 is the Chernobyl catastrophe, the explosion of the 4th reactor of the V.I. Lenin Atomic Electric Power Plant. Terrible, merciless radiation destroyed the people's lives, killed fertile black soils of the Middle belt of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. "Chernobyl at once opened to us all the simple truth: there are no iron curtains, no borders for ecological disasters; the world is one, it is fragile and endlessly small. Three and half million people suffered because of the catastrophe, 50,000 of them became disabled, who have 8-16 chronic diseases, as doctors detected. The Chernobyl victims' death rate and the number of suicides are constantly increasing. Thousands of square kilometers of the East Europe territory are infected. More than 2,600,000 people, 700,000 of them are children, live on this land nowadays.
People cannot get off from the present-day Chernobyl grief by their own power, without the state help. There is no man among them, who would not dream about the rescue from the radioactive grief and fear:" - that is the statistics of Oleg Veklenko, who is the catastrophe liquidation participant and the president of the International triennale of ecological poster "The 4th block".
Organizers:
Academy of graphic design
LiniaGraphic printing-house
Zverev center of modern arts
Curators:
Alexandr Davydov, Stanislav Ishchenko, Yelena Rymshina, Yury Surkov, Sergey Serov
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