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New Icons Exhibition at York Minster
Published: on 28th February 2007 by Alix Peacock in Press Releases
York Minster will host an exhibition of Icons by Zoran Tosic for contemplation during Lent. The exhibition entitled Divine Mother will comprise of large icons showing the Holy Mother in Christianity. The exhibition will run in St John’s Chapel at the Minster between 4th March 2007 and 15th April 2007.
The artwork will be painted using traditional media including natural and semi-precious pigments, oil, gold and silver on board. In his own words, Zoran Tosic describes the iconography as art that was initiated to open the ‘window’ into the world where the primordial Light shines, and to bring the observer closer to that world through colours, as expression of light. ‘The love of the Divine Mother shines unconditionally to all people. I hope that through these Icons each visitor may find a seed of inspiration that will add more happiness on their own Path to God.’
Zoran Tosic was awarded prestigious art prizes in Australia where he lived before he moved to England in 2005. Upon receiving the first prize in Roma Easter Art Exhibition in 2001, Assistant Curator of the National Gallery of Queensland, Joanna Bosse wrote: ‘Executed in a highly proficient technique, this work is an exquisite example of a traditional icon in the Byzantine style…A truly outstanding work by a very talented icon painter.’
The art exhibition Divine Mother is funded by Arts Council England.