CANADA 🍁….MONTREAL’S PUBLIC ART PIECE PAYS TRIBUTE TO UKRAINIAN TRADITIONS

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: The City of Montreal unveiled its newest public art piece commissioned to recognize Montreal’s Ukrainian community Friday morning. While the sculpture was chosen before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it now holds an even deeper meaning for Ukrainians living in Montreal.

Artist Giorgia Volpe took inspiration for the shape of the interlacing, open ribbon sculpture from the pysanka, a Ukrainian Easter egg.

“I try to interpret this symbol and make it like interlacing. To meet, to open, open to the past but to the future,” said artist Giorgia Volpe.

The art located in Ukraine Park in the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough was commissioned in 2020 to recognize the presence of Ukrainians in the community for more than 100 years.

“It’s a beautiful gift that the city and the art is giving back to the Ukrainian community,” said Eugene Czolij, honorary consul of Ukraine in Montreal.

With the ongoing war in Ukraine, Czolij said the gift means even more as they fight for their country.