Exhibition

Here is Your Son, here is Your Mother

The next meeting of iconographers forming the International Workshops of Iconographers took place in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The theme of the meeting refers to the words of Christ spoken on the cross to Mary and Saint. John: Here is your son, here is your mother. We invite you to the Nikifor Museum to present the works created during the workshops. The exhibition will be open until January 21, 2024.

The joint work of Polish and Ukrainian painters was accompanied by an icon of the late Ukrainian artist Ostap Łoziński, which was created in 2021 during an open-air workshop in Krzyworównia. It presents the description described by St. John's scene, which is interpreted by theologians as the "testament from the Cross". Christ, dying on the cross, addresses his mother and his beloved disciple with the words: This is your son, this is your mother. This is the moment when Mary becomes the mother of the emerging church, the new Eve, the Mother of all disciples.

Since 2009, the Association of Friends of Nowica has been organizing open-air workshops for painters associated with contemporary icon-writing centers in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Slovakia. The co-organizers of this event are: the Department of Sacred Art of the Lviv Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Ukrainian Studies of the University of Warsaw, the Greek Catholic Youth Brotherhood Sarepta, the Study of the Christian East, and painters associated with the Minsk studio IKONIQUE. The participants of the workshops are artists representing Orthodox and Catholic traditions who have the same goal - the renewal of the icon as a liturgical image constituting an important element of the common tradition of the Church.

Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk
Mateusz Sora

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Here is Your Son, here is Your Mother