The seventh day was illustrated by an ethereal icon of Christ in Glory, preparing the viewer for images of the Passion. Spaced along a wall of the tiny show room, a row of uniformly sized panels painted in muted colors depicted the first six days of Creation with painstakingly lined figurarive forms on geometric backgrounds. The show proved to be an eye-opener in the truest sense of the word. I joined a crowd of mostly young art lovers gathered on a pleasant evening for the opening of the solo exhibition of Lviv Painter Natalya Rusetska on the theme Agape: From Creation to Salvation with keen anticipation. I came in search of a new style of iconography and found it a short walk away from the city's historic Market Square in the ICONART Contemporary Sacred Art Gallery, occupying two storefront rooms on a side street of the city's old Armenian quarter. My first visit to the West Ukrainian cultural capital of Lviv in the summer of 2017 was a voyage of discovery.
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