Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art presented Soul Revelations, an exhibition of contemporary religious art
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Christian worldview recounted from different artistic perspectives
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25 genre-spanning works, from paintings and sculptures to street art
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A large-scale showcase featuring 13 artists: Nika Klyotski, Maxim Dyomin, Karolina Gartaver-Sas, Ekaterina Belyakova, Olesya Vybornova, Alexander Provotorov, Nikolai Ryndin, Anton Belikov, Kirill Vedernikov, Sergey Nekrasov, Sofya Igoshina, Pyotr Dobayev, and Filipp Gusev
Art, and visual art in particular, represents a special form of the spiritual quest: the fact that it stimulates our senses means that it is intrinsically bound to the physical world. That said, true art allows the spirit to soar above physicality. Art employs the senses to allow humans to transcend the sensuous, thus belonging to two worlds at once and most adequately expressing the duality of mankind that exists in the physical realm but constantly aspires for the metaphysical.
Since time immemorial, this duality prompted various thinkers to contemplate the role of an artist: after all, the creator’s nature is just as ambivalent as his art. One the one hand, an artist was seen as a medium called forth by the supreme forces, while on the other, as a free human being demonstrating his or her otherworldly aspect through creativity.
Soul Revelations is a showcase of contemporary religious art. With due respect for the centuries-old legacy of global culture, each of the 13 participating artists shares with the viewer his or her version of the Christian worldview.
Generally speaking, there is no such thing as Christian or anticlerical, left-wing or right-wing art. There is simply art: an individual act of creation venturing to express something that is above the individual. Assuming a life of its own, each artwork becomes a revelation of the soul, an invitation to share in the joy of the successful breakthrough into the transcendent.
