We are proud to be the guardians of the private collection by Fantastic Realist/Visionary painter, Robert Venosa.

His work is among the greatest artistic expressions that evolved alongside the 'consciousness revolution'. This movement began shifting the political, social, spiritual, and artistic landscape in the early ‘60s, in the USA and worldwide.  A true child of his time, Robert portrayed his journey through these vast changes in his paintings that were created between the early 1970s and 2011, the time of his departure.

He was one of the early psychedelic pioneers who braved the exploration of the, at the time, largely uncharted territory of conscious mind expansion and was very familiar with the 'mystical experience'. Beyond this, his early work, dating from the '70s, was also greatly inspired by naturally occurring, visions during meditative states. He speaks about this initial vision in the Biography film "In His Own Words” as well as in his online workshop “Painting the Fantastic’: “Some years ago I had a vision. It happened in a nano-second: a brilliant, jewel-encrusted, overwhelmingly beautiful, angelic looking being flashed in my mind’s eye, shocking and compelling me to attempt a rendering of this astonishing vision. Certainly, it was way beyond my abilities then as well as now, and I’ve been chasing that vision ever since.”

Much of his art was sold along the way to collectors worldwide but a private collection of the paintings he was particularly attached to remains in the VIVA Art Collection today. This collection counts ca. 70 original Venosa paintings as well as original book illustrations, designs, architectural drawings, sketches, original film and logo designs, digital art, and sculpture.