February 9 – April 12, 2012
Reception and Lecture with Marek Czarnecki and his iconography students Thursday, March 1, 5:30–7:30 pm
In a contemporary world, where the word “icon” can be broadly applied to celebrities and the branding of consumer goods, the emphasis of this exhibition was to return the term “icon” to its fundamental meaning.
Icons are not a simple style of religious art; rather, they present us with a whole vision of reality that uses art as its tool. Icons open a window into the transfigured world where spirit and matter are interconnected. To articulate the invisible world of the spirit, icons use a very careful language of signs, symbols, ideal order and beauty, yet they can never lapse into the abstract or purely allegorical.
