An exhibition of icons meant to be touched

(pravmir.com) - An “Exhibition for the Blind” is not the Right Name. This is Rather an Exhibition of Icons for All to Touch and Approach the Sacred.

The exhibition that’s currently in the “House of Icons” (Moscow, Russia) is for all. Regardless of the way they read information – by vision or by touch. The exhibits there may be touched. They SHOULD be touched.

The exhibition’s aim is to familiarize visitors with the world of iconography, from the very beginning, the creation of paint, to the finished icon. This process starts from minerals – malachite, lazurite, hematite – out of which pigments are made.Our visitors can also see mortars, in which iconographers grind paints, brushes that they use, and boards, on which the icons are created. Moreover, represented boards illustrate the process of icon creation: there are boards with linen, boards with priming, and boards with imprints.

“The exhibition also shows materials used in iconography: wood, ceramics, plaster, smalt, and metal,” explained Ekaterina Vasina, Head of PR-department of the House of Icons...

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