Contemporary visionary and sacred art
Lila is proud to present this excellent overview of visionary art by Rob Percival. “Fuchs speaks elusively of “a secret art whose traces I have discovered with almost all people and cultures, but also in nature itself, there where the primeval world appears.” The nucleus of this secret art is a shared grammar, ‘ein verschollener Stil’, … this secret grammar is the unifying factor that underpins the bewildering diversity of the genre.”
Mia believes that all individuals contain an entire universe within them, which is invisible to the naked eye. Her work concentrates on giving shape to the unseen forces in her subjects – their thoughts, memories, emotions and complex histories.
Following the successes of the Bristol Museum’s Banksy show last year, which broke museum attendance records worldwide, “Art from the New World” will feature 49 artists from the street, low-brow, and pop surrealism movements.
This global arts journal shares a garden of visionary nature art from all continents of the world. This special magazine, full of visionary art and articles has become a collectors item.
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Kashima Echo is an illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, and is a member of the International Fantastic Art Association. Kashima brings through fresh, clear, and simultaniously cute, ugly, beautiful and morbid images through, carrying resonances of the perverse illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, and the victorian fairy artist Arthur Rackham, amongst others.
Gregory Pettit is a visionary painter and psychonaut who uses paint to trap 2D images of the perpetually evolving robo-ghosts and other assorted extra-dimensional entities which are often streaming across the window of his mind’s eye.
Interview with Robert Hardgrave, a painter based in Seattle, works with the present moment. Painting from the periphery of consciousness, Hardgrave evokes subtle assembly languages of consciousness, which flow quietly in the background of conscious awareness.
The art of Amanda Sage portrays in great style both the ‘everyday’ and multidimensional aspect of humanness in harmonious balance. Her skills in portraiture serve as the scaffolding for transpersonal energies and realms, depicted in a manner containing both energetic depth and strongly contemporary resonance.
Plumbing this mystery is difficult says Gil: “Although we may not be able to ultimately express the mystery, to locate it in time and space, we can approach it with a vocabulary of images and metaphors through art and mythology and dream in which we collectively and individually participate.”
Satoshi Sakamoto, a visionary painter from Japan, discusses the development of his refined and mindblowing images.
Avatar is real: Pandora exists in our planet and it’s located in South and Central America, and Africa. The Na’vi peoples, the Indigenous peoples in those regions are being displaced and killed right now, in order to extract the natural resources laying underground. The names of places and peoples may be different in the movie, but the facts of reality are almost the same.
The incredible painter Ann McCoy guides us first hand through the powerful archetypal imagery of her paintings, recounting a major initiatory passage catylised by her mothers death. Highly recommended viewing.
By Erik Davis
With its floating Roger Deanscapes and hallucinogenic flora, the manifest world of Avatar instead spoke another truth: that the jungle pantheism that now pervades the psychoactive counterculture has gone thoroughly mainstream.
Updated Jan 2008. Interview with Maura Holden by Daniel Mirante
Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations, the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime
In this scholarly article, reprinted with generous permission from the Museum of European Art (USA) Prometheus issue 151, the visionary painter Oleg Korolev describes the spiritually corrosive forces of modernism and its extreme arrogance in denouncing and abandoning the spiritual and sacred art lineages, that have functioned as repositories of sacred symbols and meanings pertaining to the most intimate levels of the spiritual life of man.
In the core of downtown LA is the emergence of a new collection of creative energies, a colourful community united by the a collective yearning for change. Gathering together in the spirit of the artful imagination, these visionaries are reflecting our transition into a new kind of culture
Steve uses his own compelling experience with meeting and knowing Mestizo Ayahuasca shamans to thread together a detailed understanding of the rituals and worldview of the Ayahuasquero, expressing his understanding of the deep aspects of his subject, such as the realms, entities and forces of the shamanic realms, with a refreshing phenomenological purity, humility, and respect for the mysteries.
Sacred art cannot be delineated as a discreet movement, or genre. Sacred and visionary elements are to be found across the spectrum of art, across all times and places. Visionary art is an expression of profound and mysterious levels of consciousness. And it is ancient, the ‘original art’, whos aim is to continually revive and resurrect a profound respect of mystery within the matrix of culture.
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Horacio Bustos is an artist who’s originality lies in a sidereal fusion of warrior-like, religious, medieval, fetishistic and gothic influences.
The common motif across McGillivray’s vast body of work is the inter-relationship of humanity with the plant realm. The human form is frequently depicted as interpenetrated by root, rhizome, vine and leaf. These icon paintings of the deep ecological plant realm are the productions of a ‘vegetalista’, a plant-shaman.
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