They existed. They lived…


Art Project "Extinct Animals"

They existed. They lived…
We could even see one of them in childhood at the zoo. Some of them disappeared forever long before our birth.



Vitaliy Lishko’s project is a reminder to the inhabitants of the planet that, it turns out, not everything in life "goes back to normal". There is something that can be lost forever. Life is the most fragile thing on the Earth. To preserve it, it is worth to unify our efforts.

Those that have gone extinct…

A little time will pass, and they will revive in Vitaliy’s book and music album, becoming colorful illustrations. And in the meantime...


Silhouettes, showing through the black background, catch the eye: “Do you recognize me? Of course, you don’t. We have never had time to meet... ”


The movements of the brush fascinate, make you look into the messy touches through which some kind of bright and already distant image appears somehow imperceptibly and as if by itself. Each has its own musical composition; each has its own story.


Here is a Black Rhinoceros. Once it was just as fast runner as a horse. 56 kilometers per hour is not bad for such a lump! And the birds on a wide rhinoceros back that could be found in every children’s book are not fictional cartoonish characters. They REALLY loved to ride on a black rhinoceros when it still walked on the ground.


Another stroke of brush and this time the Dodo, a funny and ridiculous bird appears. It could not fly; it was trusting and was not shy. However, this did not interfere with her existence in the places where it lived. It had no serious enemies until the very day when the shadow of the first human who came from the other side of the ocean fell on the Mauritius Island.


Here is another silhouette. The representative and powerful Barbary lion was once the largest member of the cat family. But it turned out that it was not powerful enough to hold out against firearm.
Brush movement ... (Movement is life ... even on paper ...)



Have you ever seen a Red-bellied Gracile Mouse Opossum? 
The half mouse and half opossum of a funny orange color exists only in pictures now.




https://www.artfinder.com/lishkovitaliy - Painting

https://lnkfi.re/LISHKO - Music

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lishko - Art Book

https://youtu.be/mMvbCJ3EygA - Video



UDARTSEVA NATALIIA - ARTICLE

LILIT AMIRYAN - TEXT TRANSLATION

OLEKSANDR KOROL - PHOTO




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