This is where visionary art comes in. Salvador Dali’s fantastic surrealism was a precursor to visionary art and also the psychedelic culture movement of the ’60s and the proliferation of alternative culture festivals like Monterey and Woodstock played an integral part in the establishment of the movement.
In 2014 in Melbourne dance music promoter Peter Suwara and renowned Australian visionary artist Katia Honour are combining to create the Gallery Of Visions, an area at Suwara’s Fourcolours festival – a celebration of cutting edge dance music, colour and art that is happening this October 11.
Beat managed to catch up with Honour – a visionary artist who is apprenticed to Wolfgang Widmoser who was apprenticed to Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dali.
“I would say it is art that traverses inner and outer worlds – it travels between worlds and dimensions,” She details which asked to define visionary art. “The inner realms of vision being expressed in the outer realm of art.
“Visionary art can be expressed through all mediums but most galleries choose to express the art through prints on canvas. Whereas at Fourcolours I have been given a space that has no limitations, the works that will be exhibited can use all the senses in communicating their vision – this is some I am really excited about.”
Honour now discusses further plans for the Gallery Of Visions at Fourcolours. “I am bringing the most cutting edge visionary art to Fourcolours. I get to see a lot of visionary art from around the world by attending workshops by Wolfgang Widmoser and I am doing a masters of fine art. I am also on the panel of visionary art at Rainbow Serpent most years. So what that has meant is that for the Gallery Of Visions I have been able to hand pick the best artists I know of,” reveals Honour.
The artists that Honour has chosen for Fourcolours are Bryan Itch (multi-media installation), Paulie Mann (digital art), Anderson Debernardi (ayahuasca visions), Mark Lee – (augmented reality), Roger Essig (virtual reality), Tobius Millar (surrealist painting), Beau Deely (psychedelic digital art), Clint Greeson (digital art) Izzy Ivy (oil paintings) and of course herself (oil paintings).
Honour reveals that the cosmos appeared to be colluding in her favour when it came to assembling this dream team of artists. “I have to tell you that it has been via a divine process that it has all fallen into place. I was in Bali walking down the street and I bumped into Mark Lee who is the only visionary artist in the world who is doing augmented reality in art. So I said to him ‘I am creating an exhibition and it would be so good to have augmented art as part of it as the first augmented art show in Australia?’ to which he responded, ‘yeah sure here’s the file’…it was that easy that I couldn’t help but feel the universe was on our side.”
Attendees of Fourcolours must choose one of the four colours when buying a ticket. The four colours are azure (blue), citrine (yellow), viridian (green) and crimson (red). The ticket you purchase will be your chosen colour that will mean on arrival you will be given a smart wristband that will be used to interact with the artworks and the music.
BY DAN WATT
