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The third monograph book from international award-winning artist Josh Tiessen

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NOW AVAILABLE

​Over the course of three years, Josh Tiessen spent 5,000 hours creating 23 new works for the series Vanitas + Viriditas. The title is Latin for “Vanity” and “Vitality” and reflects the dual approaches to wisdom explored by two characters Qohelet and Sophia (based on Ecclesiastes and Proverbs) and their animal companions. The series debuted at the prestigious New York City gallery Rehs Contemporary from April 28 – May 26, 2023, with positive reviews appearing in Forbes, Fine Art Connoisseur, and American Art Collector.

 

Now, all the paintings, drawings, and artist statements written by Tiessen to accompany the work are presented in a beautiful full-colour coffee table book (152 pages). A foreword by award-winning art critic Natasha Gural contextualizes the painting series, and an original soundtrack composed by Zac Tiessen accompanies the project. This soothing soundtrack, recorded at the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, is available on Apple Music and Spotify, and as a CD album.

 

If you are an art enthusiast, nature lover, or deep thinker, Vanitas + Viriditas will be a special keepsake in your home, providing beauty, wonder, and reflection for years to come. Part of the proceeds from each sale (10%) will be donated to conservation organization, A Rocha Canada.​

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

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MAKOTO FUJIMURA

Leading Contemporary Artist

Josh Tiessen’s prodigious art integrates reality with goodness, exploring how the fullness of humanity can bring beauty and truth to bear in cultivating and sanctifying our imagination.

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SHAD

Juno Award-Winning Rapper

I'm touched and encouraged by Josh's full commitment to applying his otherworldly gifts to the most pressing questions of our age. And his responses collected here are even more inspiring: heart-breaking, curious, life-affirming images and words that recall the transcendent beauty of the natural world, the urgent call to live well as humans on this planet, and the divine wisdom that surrounds us.

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PETER TRIPPI, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Fine Art Connoisseur

This gifted artist looks closely at such forerunners as Caspar David Friedrich, Salvador Dalí, Andrew Wyeth, and Emily Carr to glean from them what he needs, yet he does not live in the past. Rather, he is laser-focused on a range of issues that haunt our own times, most urgently the existential threats facing the environment and particularly wildlife.

PREMIUM QUALITY

​​152 pages of vibrant full colour. Saddle-stitched binding. 

Printed on Forestry Stewardship Council-certified heavyweight matte paper (100 lb).

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SPONSORS AND BACKERS

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The 1949 Foundation, Janice Anderson, Naomi and Patrick Bergsma, Cindy and Chuck Boyll, Ruth and Hy Braiter, Michele and Ralph Braun, Marjorie Cairns, Castellana Family, Mary and Mark Chapman, Valerie Daku, Andrea Freeman-Eby, Alan Frosst, Jonathan Groeneweg and Smokestack Digital, Helen and Milton Henderson, Katie Hochhalter, T. S. Johnson, Lori Kerr, Janna LeFeuvre, Joanne and Stuart Lightbody, Ron Mellish, Ian McSporran and Bright Realty Team, Doris and Don Middleton, Graham Paulsen, Chelsea Ravensdale, Ana Sanchez, Terri and Joel Schacher, Mary and David Schmidt, Helen Small, Tiessen Technologies, Diane, Daryl, Kendra and Kyle Tiessen, John Torrance, Jane Twohey, Velma Warnock,

Audrey Meiklejohn and Michael Weaver, Andrea Hildebrand and Chris Winterson,

Gail and Stephen Whyte, and many anonymous donors

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