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    LILA covers emerging contemporary visionary and sacred art, artists, exhibitions, and related themes such as deep ecology, shamanism, mythology and new global world culture.

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    HR Giger

    H. R. Giger is one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. His airbrush innovations and ‘biomechanical’ aesthetics have been highly influential upon western culture.

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    Ernst Fuchs

    Immersed in dreams and symbolism, combined with technical and aesthetic innovation, Ernst Fuchs is a grandmaster of visionary and contemporary sacred art,

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    Odd Nerdrum - Twin Mothers

    The Man with the Golden Coin

    By Oleg Korolev

    The artist cannot realize that the problem is in the art system, which still acts as a hidden tool of the Cultural war, passing off a genuine Soviet-style of the “Planning economics” as the “Free market” of Capitalism.

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    New works by Oleg Korolev – Alchemy of Rurik

    By Oleg Korolev

    In general the Slavonic native religions have a lot in common with the rest of the Indo-European spiritual traditions and have a direct connection to Vedanta. A Russian word Veda (t’) means “to know” or just a “knowledge”, “awareness”, came from Sanskrit.

    Lila has charted the contemporary visionary and sacred art movement by talking directly to those involved. Explore the themes, motifs, inspirations and approaches to creativity found in visionary art.

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    • Maura Holden : Painting from the Hypersea of Spirit
    • Kuba Fiedorowicz : Visionary Art / Sacred Art
    • The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo
    • A Translator Of Visions – The Art of Martina Hoffmann

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    Global sacred arts initiative

    From the forges of the far western wing of the Elvish Nation in Canadia, comes an innovative new incarnation of the galactik trading card oracle complex.

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    Odd Nerdrum Granted Appeal

    In a dramatic turn of events, the internationally renowned painter Odd Nerdrum has been granted a new trial in the Norwegian appeals court.

    Heritages Surrealistes

    Heritages surrealistes

    Immersed in dreams and symbolism, “Heritages Surrealistes” brings together the work of two of Andre Breton’s colleagues: Isabel Meyrelles and deceased Anne Ethuine with contemporary surrealists from seven different countries.

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    Sacred Visions : Art Techniques to evoke the visionary world

    For these two consecutive weekends we will dive deep into our creative wellsprings and retrieve visions from our deep inner life with two experienced and recognized artists specializing in contemporary sacred art.

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    Global sacred arts initiative by admin

    From the forges of the far western wing of the Elvish Nation in Canadia, comes an innovative new incarnation of the galactik trading card oracle complex.

    The Man with the Golden Coin by Oleg Korolev

    The artist cannot realize that the problem is in the art system, which still acts as a hidden tool of the Cultural war, passing off a genuine Soviet-style of the “Planning economics” as the “Free market” of Capitalism.

    Visionary Arts: What Vision? by Gaia Orion

    The artist’s life may seem to be unfolding like an archetypal legend where dreams and events are interwoven in a perfect dance. The core of these visions is an ordered and centered life with intentions of understanding and integrity. The visionary art that comes from this base is what we also call “contemporary sacred art”.

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    Upcoming Exhibitions & Events

    Robert Beer – Visions of the Divine

    http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2012vod/index.shtml Lila very much recommends a visit to the brilliant October Gallery and Robert Beer’s talks. Robert Beer Robert Beer has studied and practiced Tibetan Art for the past forty years and is now recognized as one of the foremost scholars in this field. Over the past fifteen years he has been working closely with [...]

    Art of the Orishas – Opening May 3rd

    The spirits of the African diaspora continue to be a living and vibrant part of peoples lives. This show includes a blend traditional and modern interpretations of these spirit, their stories and ceremonies.

    Heritages Surrealistes

    Heritages surrealistes

    Immersed in dreams and symbolism, “Heritages Surrealistes” brings together the work of two of Andre Breton’s colleagues: Isabel Meyrelles and deceased Anne Ethuine with contemporary surrealists from seven different countries.

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Autumnal Equinox Visionary Media Release

Sep 23, 2008 Delvin Solkinson in Interviews, News No Comments Tags: boom, Delvin, Erik Davis, video

“Stretching out like one of the Buddha’s great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality”

- Erik Davis, ‘True Visions’ www.techgnosis.com

From the depths of the fabled flow, comes the combined forces of a crew of visionaries aligned in the grassy hillocks of central Portugal to explore the present and future of the emerging visionary art culture. This is a source link from a number of art culture communities like Pod Collective (USA), Elfintome (Canada), Beinart (Australia), Zoetic Art (Galactik), Light Science (Canada), Lila (UK), Spectraleyes (Bali), Nectar Temple (USA), and Visionary Revue (France).

Our intention for this media stream is to to create a mosaic message which can open up dialogues on many levels to help give momentum and generate inspiration for visionary art and culture. We wish to send this video out as far and wide as we can. Attached are two sizes of banner that could be used when appropriate. Consider this like Dungeons and Dragons, a gaming system. This gaming system is called ‘Global Media Release’ and our goal is to send it as far and wide as we can. If you can help by posting this media release and video link that would be great. Hoping for front page links, we are also happy to have back end tags in links sections, every portal is a key helping to unlock the network and build visionary art culture community.

“What authenticates the visionary today is the meanings that emerge through them, as they circulate through overlapping communities of perception. The solo artist as modern shaman is an old story. Today the visionary artist is less important than the visionary culture they seed, an expanding planetary network with art as one of its many nodes”

- Erik Davis, ‘True Visions’ www.techgnosis.com

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIMINAL MEDIA STREAM :

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8823655682267212413

VISIONARY ART CULTURE CREATORS PANEL
Boom Festival 2008, Portugal
Liminal Media Stream

“Fantastic and Visionary is a journey of self discovery. Along with discovering ourselves, we are discovering, that we are not alone. Fantastic Visionary artists show us that there other possibilities, limitless ones, if we allow ourselves to dream. We are the community that is unafraid to dream.”

- Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)

Presented by the Elvish Nation, Pod Collective, Elfintome and Crystal and Spore, this historic panel connects key art culture creators from North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Exploring the role and place of art in the new culture, this is a tributary in a 120 hr curriculum confluence featuring over 30 presenters and artists from 23 countries. Over the course of a week the liminal village conference and gallery hosted many of the 30,000 festival goers from 80 countries.

For an exploration of boom festival check www.boomfestival.org or see
the 2008 pod drop at http://podcollective.com/fora/viewtopic.php?t=950

Visionary Art Culture Creators Panel

CONCEPT STEWARD AND MC : Delvin Solkinson (www.elvism.net)
DJ : Naasko Wripple (www.interchill.com)
VJ : Sijay James (www.onbeyondmetamedia.com

ART PANEL :
Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)
Luke Brown (www.spectraleyes.com
Carey Thompson (www.galactivation.com
Andrew Jones (www.androidjones.com)
Zariat (www.zariat.com)
Laurence Caruana (www.lcaruana.com)

DEW DROP :
Our cusp culture is borne into an age of deep transformation, ripe with new avenues for expression and artistic evolution. In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world.

Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were
limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreampt of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

NETWORK LINKS :
boomfestival.org
podcollective.com
elfintome.com
visionaryrevue.com
lila.info
elvism.net
higherglyphiks.com
lightscience.ca
r6xx.com
beinart.org

contact for hardcopy media link : delvin@crystalandspore.com

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