To reflect appropriately on Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World I will apply the disciplines of Eastern Christian Theology, the dual modes of cataphatic (positive) and apophatic (negative) thought, in offering definitions of what we know of an experience but also what it is not, all the better to know the subject. On a positive note, the exhibition is a “tour de force,” something of a first on this scale in this country. Congratulations are due for initiating curator Dr. Sophie Matthiesson and Mona’s curator Jane Clark, together apparently against the tide of pervasive secular materialism, presenting a celebration of praying with your eyes open.
During the Bolshevik Revolution the Great Wonderworking icon of the circa twelfth century, was removed from its revered rest in Moscow’s Kremlin Dormition Cathedral, taking up new residence in the State Tretyakov Gallery.
