Posts by Jonathan Pageau
Icons for Peace, AI Exhibition – October 2015
The British Association of Iconographers is organizing an Exhibition of icons called Icons for Peace on the !4th-15th and 16th October from 10:30am to 5.00pm at St. Saviour’s Church, St George’s Square, Pimlico, LONDON SW1V 3QW. The exhibition will be innaugurated by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira (Ecumenical Patriarchate) on the 14th at 11.00am. Our own…
Continue reading »The New Romanian Masters: Innovative Iconography in the Matrix of Tradition
(Editor’s note. For some time now we’ve wanted to find a way to present the burgeoning iconography which is currently happening in Romania. And so after a bit of searching, this article introducing the new school of iconography was written especially for OAJ by Mother Atanasia (Văetişi) of the Stavropoleos Monastery in Bucharest in collaboration with my own parish priest Fr.…
Continue reading »Sacred Symbol, Sacred Art
In February of this year I was invited by King’s University College to give a talk in their Veritas Series on faith and culture. The theme of this year’s series was “Speaking about God” exploring the different ways we express and address the Divine. I developed my talk in the context of the many discussions…
Continue reading »Byzanfest, an Orthodox short-film festival.
Chris Vlahonasios is the founder and director of Byzanfest, the first online festival of Orthodox short films. He is also a blogger at Orthodox Filmmakers and Artists. I interviewed him about how all of this came about and about his view of the possible relationships between Orthodox arts and film. Along the way one…
Continue reading »Georgian Master Iconographer: Amiran Goglidze
Like many of the first generation to rediscover the icon in the 20th century, Amiran Goglidze learned iconography by restoring churches. He finished art school (painting college of I. Nikoladze) in 1971, but then also continued to study restoration and conservation of monumental art (Tbilisi State Academy of Painting) from 1971-1977. He was brought very close…
Continue reading »Mozaicon. Vibrant Romanian Mosaics
Mozaicon was started by a group of Romanian fresco artists who came together in 2008 to create the mosaics for the Patriarchal Cathedral Complex in Bucharest. After the initial project, only one of the artists, Daniel Codrescu continued working in mosaics until 2010, when once again other artists joined in to work on multiple projects…
Continue reading »Georgian Wonder
I have already posted an article on Contemporary Georgian artists. But it seems like every week I discover one more amazing Georgian artist doing things in repoussé, wood, stone, enamel or mosaic that very few are able to equal in quality and especially in vivacity. Vivacity is really the world to use, an art that is confident and…
Continue reading »Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.
This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” Jonathan Pageau uses a phenomenological approach to explain traditional cosmology and its symbolism, explaining in what manner it is crucial to our experience of being in the world. Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat. Where is Heaven? Heaven and Earth in…
Continue reading »Byzantium – Celebrating The Icon in Ottawa
The first Ottawa International Byzantine Arts Symposium wrapping up at the beginning of this month surrounded the work of master iconographer George Kordis with an exhibition, 2 concerts and an icon painting workshop. I had no idea what to expect going in to this event. I had been contacted by the event organizer, Lesia Maruschak only…
Continue reading »Heaven and Earth in The Icon
This is post 3 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” Jonathan Pageau uses a phenomenological approach to explain traditional cosmology and its symbolism, explaining in what manner it is crucial to our experience of being in the world. Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat. Where is Heaven? Heaven and Earth in…
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