The sculptures of a French artist “in homage to the Ukrainian resistance” on the stamps of kyiv’s post

The Ukrainian Post will sell on Monday, on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the Russian invasion, a series of stamps reproducing sculptures installed in Kiev by the French street artist James Colomina in “Tribute to the Ukrainian resistance”. Under the title Art vs Warthe three stamps represent a boy painting the Ukrainian stencil trident on a kyiv post wall, a dove holding a branch, and a child wearing a war helmet swinging under a bridge in the Ukrainian capital, three works From the Toulouse artist, we can see on the website of the Ukrainian Post.

Drawn to 109,600 copies in reference to the fact that Monday is 1,096^e Day of the war launched by the Russian invasion in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, stamps will be officially presented on Monday at the kyiv Post, the latter announced in a statement. The series is also “Dedicated” au 11^e Anniversary of the Russian-Ukrainian war that started on February 20, 2014 with the invasion of Crimea. “Since then, for eleven years, the Ukrainian people have resisted the Russian aggression”adds the Ukrainian post press release obtained by AFP.

“Silent revolt”

Committed artist, James Colomina had already denounced the“Absurdity” From the war in Ukraine by means of a statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at Califourchon on a miniature tank, which he installed in children’s playgrounds in Paris, London and New York. “My works have always been made to impose themselves in public space, but seeing them travel through stamps is another form of silent revolt”he told AFP.

He went to kyiv in August 2024, he said, for “Put (his) stone at the building” return to peace. For two weeks, he installed his works after sunset, while “Bomb alerts resounded every night”. He says he « honoré » That the Ukrainian Post has chosen to reproduce its sculptures, made of red resin, its trademark. For the first anniversary of the conflict, in February 2023, a stamp had reproduced a work by the British graffiti artist Banksy, in which a young judoka put the carpet an adult man, allegory of Ukraine winning Russia, painted on a building in ruins near of kyiv.