II International Exhibition of Symbolic Art "Vigenari Art"

The popularity of the direction in the world of art called Visionary Art is growing at an incredible speed and is now so wide and loved by artists, art historians and a wide audience of buyers that this style in art can rightfully be considered a new global phenomenon and a mature subculture.

Forms of participation:

ORIGINAL, COMPANIES, REMOTE.

1. Full-time (personal) participation: the author personally presents the originals or giclee at an exhibition in Moscow.
2. Remote participation: an exhibition of the originals of your works of art sent by mail.
3. Absentee participation: an exhibition of reproductions of your works of art printed from your files (exposure in the form of photocopies).

Materials required for participation in the exhibition:

1. Application form (download in Word, PDF)
2. Labels for each art object (download in Word, PDF);
3. Photograph of the author (at least 3x4 cm in size);
4. Contest Photos

Sections / Nominations:

Works (full-time and part-time) are exhibited at the Moscow House of Artists and participate in the program in the following sections-nominations:

1) Vigenari art

Vizhenari art - an artistic style based on a spontaneous image of what is seen in an altered state of consciousness, religious, meditative contemplation, trance, and flashbacks that occur after the so-called “trips” (psychedelic state) - altered states of consciousness characterized by different from typical perceptions and an intense process of awareness. English synonyms of Vizhenari art: Visionary Art, Fantastic Realism, Imaginative Art, Mystical Art, Psychedelic Art.

2) Mystical Symbolism

Mystical symbolism is an artistic reflection of religious teachings, philosophical works, the understatement and ambiguity of plots and their interpretations. The image is not a concrete image, but statements (even a scream) of the soul, mood, experience, impression. The supremacy of emotional experience as the creator of the creation, and the viewer.

3) Cosmism

Cosmism is a person and humanity as elements connected in a single whole with the cosmos, other worlds and dimensions, unknown states of matter. The interpenetration and coexistence of realities, the beauty of alien worlds. Abstract categories and concepts as a topic for creative expression: spiritual search, the passage of time, thought and its movements.

4) Fantastic Realism

Fantastic realism - as a forerunner of Vigenari art, a combination of a realistic style of painting, pithiness and fantastic motives, the author’s ideas about phenomena outside of sensory experience.

5) Magical Realism

Magical realism is a combination of a realistic picture of the world and magical elements, a game with vision. The combination of photographic accuracy and paradox.

Expert Council
Experts from 28 countries of the world!

History reference:

Last year, more than 50% of foreign artists participated in the exhibition - 182 artists from 27 countries of the world!

At the 2018 exhibition, the exhibition featured contemporary works of the most outstanding foreign representatives of symbolic and visionary art. Among them - the founder of American visionary art Ernst Fuchs (USA), the founder of the British school Vizhenari Art Bridget Marlin (Great Britain), Andrew Gonzalez (USA), Alex Gray (USA), Cuba Ambrose (Australia), Chris Daer (Great Britain), Luis Tamani (Peru), Pablo Amaringo (Peru), Amanda Sage (USA), De Es (Austria), Agostino Arrivabene (Italy), Victor Safonkin (Czech Republic), Adam Scott Miller (Australia), Mati Clarvein (USA), Roberto Venosa )USA), Martina Hoffmann (USA), Olga Spiegel (USA), Daniel Mirante (Great Britain), Philip Ruby ova Jacobson (US), and others.

Oleg Korolev, Boris Indrikov, Sergey Potapov became the domestic headliners.