The Peladan Centenary Collection 1918-2018
27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix. Regular...
Stained by the Light II & ART = PRAXIS Symposium | Glastonbury 2017
Stained by the Light II 2017 was Sasha Chaitow’s new solo exhibition of neosymbolist art, accompanied by music written for the paintings, and a one-day symposium of talks by scholars and artists “Art = Praxis”. The exhibition was hosted at Glastonbury Galleries...
Stained by the Light I | Sasha Chaitow’s 2017 art exhibition | A virtual visit to the Corfu show
Sasha Chaitow’s exhibition of melodized neosymbolist art “Stained by the Light I”, Corfu Reading Society, May 2017
“The Greater Perfect System” (Studio visit #1-Stained by the Light collection)
From Sasha Chaitow’s studio: a video talking about the ideas behind her 2017 art collection, featuring the painting “The Greater Perfect System” – an ode to the power of music and geometry.
Inside Sasha’s Studio: Winter 2016-17 – working on Stained by the Light series
The working title for my new collection sums up what happens when I go off to pick a fight with another angel, as I do without fail almost every night. Several strands of inspiration coagulate in my new collection: the power of letters, words, and ancient scripts; the central notion of metamorphosis and initiation expressed through a literal interpretation of the collection title; the use of antique and emblematic symbolism inspired by Renaissance art, all heavily influenced by the subversive power of street art.
Lecture: Josephin Peladan – A Salon to Initiate the Masses”
Immensely prolific, yet discredited during his lifetime, the symbolist author and visionary occultist Joséphin Péladan (Sâr Merodack, 1858-1918) constructed a vast yet coherent body of teachings in response to the social decadence he perceived in late 19th century...
Saving the Lives of Angels – Sasha’s UK exhibition & lecture schedule
My visual narration of the Fall legend according to the vision of a forgotten enfant terrible of Western esotericism.
FANTAST IN FOCUS: Interview for “The Thinker’s Garden” July 2016
ICON Galley owner and curator Dr Sasha Chaitow was recently interviewed for “The Thinker’s Garden” website – a cabinet of curiosities featuring articles on the sublime and mysterious in art, history, and culture. This was a rare opportunity to draw together the...
Studio Visit : Creating sacred art in Corfu, Winter 2015
Saints of the Word exhibition – lecture tour in Sweden & Denmark 2015
Some months ago I received an invitation to Aarhus University to speak on Péladan’s literature and “esoteric modernism” at a closed symposium with scholars doing some incredibly exciting work in this area, breaking new ground on possible...
The Occult Power of Greek Icons – Treadwell’s lecture 2015
Friends who know me from other (academic or social) contexts may have been a bit surprised to see me opening a gallery mainly focused on Greek sacred art earlier this year, but there is a host of reasons why this particular artform captured my attention, as I explain...New book: Atalanta Unveiled
