Talk About Death, Comics and Chocolate with a Ukrainian Art Curator: “We Don’t Want to Be Identified with War Alone”

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The first contact of Borys Filonenko (Járkov, 34 years old) with art, to which he would then dedicate his life, arose from chocolate. Surely those Lindt tablets, which humanitarian aid carried in the nineties to the Ukraine newly liberated from the Soviet yoke, knew him to masterpiece. But, moreover, the role played vignettes of the comics of Tintin. From his native Járkov, a few kilometers from the border with Russia, the child thus traveled to…