The Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre for Art and Spirituality, announces the opening of a new Sacred Art Exhibit titled Fragments on June 7, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. at Via Sacra, Via delle Mura 12 in Barga (LU). Fragments is part of an ongoing series of exhibits from the Mount Tabor Centre, including works that will be featured at the basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, for the Congress of the Italian Bishops (CEI) this fall. The artists for Fragments, Filippo Rossi and Susan Kanaga, are contemplatives, who express their faith in abstract forms and glowing colors. The “fragments” represent the experiences of an Italian Catholic man, and an American Protestant woman. Diverse in their styles, the artists come together to portray an installation of festive solemnity, and the combination raises an expression of joy in the Spirit.
The Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre for Art and Spirituality promotes visual and performing arts, organizes educational programs, and facilitates ecumenical exchange. Via Sacra, home of the Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre in Barga, Italy, provides a context for reflection and discussion about faith and creativity, contemplation and communication, liturgy and beauty. The Mount Tabor Centre also offers spiritual retreats and study visits, organizes lectures and international symposia on issues and trends in the arts today, facilitates ecumenical dialogue on monastic history and spirituality in music and the arts, and presents choral concerts, theatre productions, and exhibits of contemporary sacred art.
FILIPPO ROSSI trained in the life drawing school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and graduated in art history from the University of Florence. Since 1997 he has been Visiting Professor at the Stanford University Centre for Overseas Studies in Florence. He is currently Coordinator of the Diocesan Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage in Florence. His most recent solo shows have been hosted in Assisi, Florence, Arezzo, Italy, Crots, France, and Shangai (China). 2015 will end with shows in Cortona, and Bergamo, and participation in the show scheduled for the National Ecclesiastical Conference in Florence at the end of the year.www.filipporossi.infoSUSAN KANAGA – A native of Kansa City, Susan holds a Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the Maine College of Art, a Bachelor of Arts Degree for the University of Denver and an Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Studies from Rockhurst College. She studied mosaic in Ravenna, Italy, with Alessandra Caprara, and helped fabricate the mosaic floor of the Church of the Transfiguration. In 2004, Susan designed a Creation cycle of stone sculpture in the Atrium of the Church of the Transfiguration, working with Sculptor Régis Demange. In 2014, Susan collaborated with Filippo Rossi for the exhibition “Luce del Mondo” (Light of the World). Susan’s work has also been featured in exhibitions in Detroit, Michigan, Portland, Maine; Kansas City, Missouri; and Panzano in Chianti. Future exhibits include a show scheduled for the National Ecclesiastical Conference in the fall of 2015, Florence, Italy. Susan is currently living in Lucca, Italy, while pursuing a Master’s Degree, with emphasis on abstract sacred art.
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