From 15 December 2024 to 22 December 2024, artION participates with two icons from its workshop, in the International Inter-Orthodox Iconography and Visual Arts group exhibition in Vienna, Austria, entitled: “Looking at the Light”.
The two-page brochure of artION, with the two icons of the workshop that will participate in the exhibition.
The exhibition will take place in the wonderful place of Galerie Contemplor (Kalvarienberggasse 46,1170 Wien).
The invitation to the opening of the exhibition.
The aim of the exhibition is to showcase icons of different styles and schools by renowned hagiographers, created out of their love and interest in Byzantine iconography and the emerging schools of different styles after the 14th century, such as the Palaeologan, Macedonian and Cretan School.
Thus, the visitor has the opportunity to see hagiographic representations with scenes based on the lives and martyrdoms of the saints, by hagiographers faithful to the Byzantine tradition, as well as icons of mosaic, socio-religious painting, sculpture, photography, mixed techniques and icons in pencil and charcoal, of high quality standards.
In hagiographies, the important element is the way in which religious symbolism is rendered (in the design, the color, the shaping of the figures and their thematic framing). The figures have particular expressions, personal traits and established body postures. The hagiographer takes into account the physiognomic features of the holy person, but illustrates them in such a way as to highlight his holiness rather than his external appearance.
The images that the visitor will see to the exhibition, have all been created with an abundant love for the art of hagiography, whether they were painted with hagiography powders, with the traditional technique of egg tempera, on wood (linden, plywood, plywood, etc.), or with other techniques. The hagiographies that will be presented in the exhibition were not produced as mere copies of Byzantine icons, but as the birth of a unique identification, artistic and spiritual. That is why in this exhibition every visitor will be able to see and perhaps acquire a portable icon of the saint he venerates and would like to have at home.
While the opportunity will be given to the visitors to study icons as part of the Orthodox faith, as objects of art, as an occasion for prayer and a source of emotion, as a gift, as an heirloom, as an eternal value.
The poster of the exhibition, with the artists’ participation in it.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Holy Metropolis of Austria, the Hungarian Deputy Diocese of Hungary and Central Europe.
The exhibition is organized by Mrs. Konstantina Farmaki (Konsfarm Art Atelier/Konstantina Farmaki NÖ. Österreich), Art Historian-Critic Art/Artist, Cultural Attaché of the U.N.E.S.C.O. Group Austria and Member of the Cultural Networking Office of South Austria (Kulturvernetzung NÖ).
With the support of the Lyceum of Hellenic Women of Vienna, the Federation of Hellenic Associations of Vienna, the Greek Intercultural Association “Macedonia” Austria and communication sponsors NÖN, Bezirks Bläter, Hellenic Media Group, Radio SDW, Aristareti Kunstmagazin.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on Sunday 15 December 2024 at 15:00 (local time).
The exhibition will run from Sunday 15 December 2024 to Sunday 22 December 2024, with visiting hours daily from 11:00 to 18:00.
You are all invited!
With friendly greetings and appreciation,
P.S. 1. “The purpose of hagiography is the reduction from the sensible to the intelligible, from the material to the spiritual and from the ephemeral to the eternal. With hagiography everything is depicted, not as a spectacle but as a mystery.”
P.S. 2. artION would like to thank its good friends, who with so much joy, love and kindness, have agreed to grant for the duration of the exhibition the two icons (Saint George the Trophy Bearer and Saint Nikolaos) that our workshop created for them.
P.S. 3. The following prizes will be awarded to the artworks in the exhibition by secret ballot: a. The Publikum Preis, b. The “Konsfarm Art Atelier Award” and c. The Artists’ Award (Künstlerpreis Vergeben), for which any artwork, other than their own, will be voted for by the artists with physically present at the exhibition. In the event of a tie, all awards will be drawn by lot.
