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"Celestial architecture" at Palazzo Leoni-Montanari
Exhibition September 28, 2021 − July 3, 2022
The Celestial Architecture Project contemporary Russian artist Valery Koshlyakov was presented at the Galleries Italiana in Palazzo Leoni-Montanari, where he complemented the updated an exhibition of Russian icons.
The exhibition invites you to interact and experience sacred images, and the multisensory content complements the exhibition and introduces viewers to the Russian Orthodox tradition.
The design of the exhibition resembles the decoration of an Orthodox church with an iconostasis, emphasizing the highly technical and skilled nature of the main works in the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. The exhibition features more than 70 icons, in dialogue with which Valery Koshlyakov, known mainly for his painting, has made a series of objects called ikonos ("image", "embodiment"). These constructions made of cardboard and paper represent icon "slides" and temples and refer to the symbolism and architecture of the sacred image.
Prepared according to the materials of the portal "The Art Newspaper".
The exhibition invites you to interact and experience sacred images, and the multisensory content complements the exhibition and introduces viewers to the Russian Orthodox tradition.
The design of the exhibition resembles the decoration of an Orthodox church with an iconostasis, emphasizing the highly technical and skilled nature of the main works in the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. The exhibition features more than 70 icons, in dialogue with which Valery Koshlyakov, known mainly for his painting, has made a series of objects called ikonos ("image", "embodiment"). These constructions made of cardboard and paper represent icon "slides" and temples and refer to the symbolism and architecture of the sacred image.
Prepared according to the materials of the portal "The Art Newspaper".
