Holy Week Art (Global Collection 1)

Art of the Cross and Communion by artists from China, Armenia, USA, Spain, Italy, and Tanzania.

‘The Faces of Christ’ is an exhibit (2012) of contemporary religious art by nearly 30 Roman Catholic artists from a dozen countries. It has toured several European countries so far and will tour the USA later this year (information at bottom of this post).

The introduction to the exhibit states, “What these pieces have in common is each artist’s courage to break with the status quo, to create art with a reference to beauty, truth, and goodness and in which Christ’s message is clearly, pastorally, and attractively presented. These are painters who explore new ways that are in continuity with the past without copying it, each within his own culture. It is our hope that this initiative will help to re-light the torch of Christian art.”

See the entire online exhibit at
http://www.faces-of-christ-collection.com/gallery.html

For this blog post, I’m highlighting 10 of my favorite images (from 100+) that deal with scenes of Holy Week, and by extension, the Eucharist. 

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The path to Heaven (2011) by Lina Sun, China.
Oil on canvas. 100 x 65 cm.

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Jesus the Divine Mercy (2010) by  Don Hovsep Achkarian, Armenia
Egg, tempera on wood. 35 x 21.5 cm.

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The Face of Christ (The VI Station of the Cross) (2008) by James Langley, USA
Watercolour and graphite on paper mounted on board. 18 x 18 cm.

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The Flagellation of Christ (2010) by Thobias Minzi, Tanzania
Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 cm.

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The IV Station of the Cross (2010) by Thobias Minzi, Tanzania
Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 cm.

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The Crucifixion (2010) by Thobias Minzi, Tanzania
Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 cm.

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The Lamb of God, Savior of Mankind (2012) by Philip Prescott Parham, USA
Oil on canvas. 100 x 100 cm.

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Christ in the Eucharist (2012) by Raul Berzosa, Spain (Andalusia)
Oil on canvas. 81 x 116 cm.

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The triumph of the Eucharist over sin (2010) by Raul Berzosa, Spain (Andalusia)
Oil on canvas. 116 x 60 cm.

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I Am the Alpha and Omega (2012) by Giuseppe Lomuscio, Italy
Oil on canvas. 130 x 100 cm.

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The Faces of Christ collection has been shown at World Youth Day - Madrid, World Eucharistic Congress - Dublin, and Cathedral of Caen in France.  Before its U.S. tour, the collection will travel to Krakow, Poland in July 2016 for World Youth Day.

The art exhibit will tour several places in the USA later this year. “The Catholic Artists Conference will be held at St. Benedict’s Retreat Center in Schuyler, NE from Sept 12, 2016 to Sept 13, 2016. We will have 16 presentations from professional Catholic Artists in the three days… We also will exhibit The Faces of Christ from Sept 12 -24, 2016. Our conference is the U.S. debut of worldwide collection called the Faces of Christ by Steen Heidemann and will go onto Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Chicago.”
http://www.catholic-artists.org/2016-catholic-artists-conference-at-st-benedicts-retreat-center/

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