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Heavenly Beauty on Earth: Contemporary Egg Tempera Orthodox ICONS

Dates:2016-04-09 ~ 2016-07-03
Opening Hours : Tuesday–Sunday : 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location:Special Exhibition AreasⅠ
Closing Day : The museum is closed every Monday, and Chinese New Year’s Eve to Chinese January 3rd.

 

Compared to other religions, the vast majority of people find the religious history and artistic expression of Orthodox rather distant and strange. For this reason, the Museum of World Religions, in joint cooperation with Taiwan's Orthodox Church for the first time, is holding an exhibition to promote multiculturalism and international perspective. George Kordis from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece has been invited and has provided guidance on exhibiting the exciting and rare tempera icon painting. 

The exhibition is divided into four sub-themes, namely “The Heavenly Beauty of Healing,” “Composition and Techniques,” “A world in a Grain of Sand,” and “Inheritance and Innovation.” Visitors are led from the right to the left. In addition to the paintings, images are also displayed, wherein the works in the central arc stage are the ones personally drawn by Professor Kordis during the exhibition.

We hope that by treating cultural heritage seriously as such, different artistic visions, cultural knowledge and positive thinking may be injected into the world of cultural asset preservation in Taiwan. It is also anticipated that the exquisite display may enrich people's vision and mind. We welcome you all to have a taste of the exquisite Orthodox tempera icon paintings that have two thousand years of history and are rich in philosophical implications.

 

Website:http://www.mwr.org.tw/2016heaven/

 

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