Marc Vinciguerra Fine Arts
THE SCULPTOR GRIMOIRE
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
HEGEL THE CAMEL
This is my new friend. His name is Hegel the Camel, we meditate together in the Saharan Desert the beautiful thoughts on Buddhism of Hegel in the Lessons on Philosophy of History. The camel is a post-metaphysical animal, he meditates more with his body than with his mind: all camels are natural phenomenologists but the reverse is not true. My new elegant has even allowed me to smoke a fat cigar. Thank you dear friend.
Monday, December 25, 2023
A PHILOSOPHICAL CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas to all! I got this absolute treasure for the bibliophile and the epistemophiliac that I unapologetically am. This is the lectures on Malebranche that Maurice Merleau-Ponty gave at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1947-1948. We are able to read this because a student kept his notes that are published here. This is special to me because Malebranche is my favorite philosopher/theologian. When I was reading Malebranche I was surprised about how his theory of the union of the body and the soul was breaking so clearly with the platonism of Descartes who drastically separates both and also how this union announces the phenomenology of flesh of Merleau-Ponty. I was enchanted to discover through this book that the reason why I could not dissociate the two authors is because the second studied extensively the first. I continue to believe that Malebranche is revolutionary because his research implies that the manifestation of the sacred is more of a matter of states than a matter of belief. Which raises 3 questions still 3 centuries later if the religious emotion is grounded on states: 1 in what order these states manifest themselves for the sacred to actualize it self? 2 do the believer and the secularist can have a full contact with the sacred ? 3 is what we call the phenomenon of revelation a modification of those states?
Merry philosophical Christmas dear Friends! ❤️
Friday, December 15, 2023
NEW INTERVIEW OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF SICILY
Beautiful interview today of the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily who acquired my triptych. Giuseppina is a remarkable woman and disciple of Jean Clair the former director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. They both fought all their life to restore the lost alliance between meaning and art. Click on the link for the full article below.
Friday, December 1, 2023
SARAH KOFMAN
Sarah Kofman was one of the greatest Nietzsche scholars in the nineties and she was also my professor. As I was recently reading Gianni Vattimo who is one of the meaningful philosopher of our age and himself a great Nietzsche scholar, I noticed that he quotes Sarah Kofman often. I was pleased to see that 30 years latter her voice still counts for the great thinkers. Her books are still published in English even though she was French 30 years latter.She decided to take her life the 15 October 1994 purposely on the 150 anniversary of the birth of Nietzsche. We waited for her a little too long on this cold Parisian morning of October 16 1994. Read her books: Nietzsche and the Philosophical Scene, Nietzsche and Metaphor, Explosion 1 and Explosion 2. She was an extraordinary philosopher.
Monday, November 20, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
ELSEWHERE
The place in which new theologies are fabricated, in which the sacred is resculpted and in which art dares to be one with meaning. You need only a chair to reimagine the world.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Friday, August 4, 2023
Friday, June 2, 2023
CAN GOD BE FOUND IN IMMANENCE?
Extraordinary time at Oxford University where I was invited to a private lecture exploring the frontier between theology and phenomenology. The symposium on Truth and Contemplation was beautifully organized by researchers and fellows from the Faculty of Theology and Religion of Oxford. When a researcher starts with opening remarks that are both in English and in Sanskrit you know you have arrived in Oxford. After a powerful opening by Mark Wrathall ( our times authority on Heidegger read his book The Heidegger Lexicon ) with fascinating remarks on the De-godding of the world (Engotterung) Professor Kevin Hart who was honored for his life time work ( read his excellent Poetry and Revelation 2017 ) and Father Jean-Yves Lacoste one of the foremost theologian of our times ( who wrote Experience and the Absolute 2004 and the Phenomenality of God 2008 ) both started their lectures and a discussion followed. Professor Kevin Hart summarized brilliantly the question that reunited us on this day: this fundamental question is can God be found in immanence. I was moved to be introduced by the Fellow Lecturer of the Faculty of Theology and Religion as one who bridges aesthetics with theology. All my life I have been haunted by this question and will carry on trying to respond with sculptures, lectures, symbols and mystical gates. At the diner that followed the presence of camaraderie, collegiality and excellence never left the room. It was one of these days in which you feel perfectly at home in the world. On the question: is phenomenological reduction a method or an art Jean-Yves Lacoste concluded with great humor and great depth saying ‘’we need as much description as possible and as little prescription as possible’’ to keep the pre-epistemic truth in its purity.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Monday, May 29, 2023
Friday, May 26, 2023
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Monday, April 10, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT ME PHENOMENOLOGY
Jean-Toussaint Desanti he was my professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He was friend with Sartre and Malraux and was the professor of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. He taught me phenomenology with a clarity that I will never forget. One day I asked him how to create a new philosophy and he said to me you have to sit in the failure of a system then only two things can happen either the system stays strong and then it is a solid one or the system explodes and you found something new. Last time I saw him it was at the Grand Oral exam on Husserl at the Sorbonne in which he gave me the maximum grade and at the end of the exam he told me that I should learn Corsican because we shared the same origin of being both from this island. He used to always have 5 books open on his desk at all time that would change but there was one that was always open and that was the Metaphysics of Aristotle. I will never forget that man who had the three great qualities for a philosopher, extraordinary clarity, extraordinary kindness and extraordinary silence.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Friday, December 2, 2022
NOMINATED FOR BEST SCIENCE-FICTION GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
HERO OF A SCIENCE-FICTION NOVEL
About 2 years ago the insanely talented portraitist for the newspaper Le Monde in Paris who worked for George Lucas and revamped the logo of American express asked me to be the hero of his next science fiction graphic novel. Since yesterday the graphic novel graces the shelves of every bookstores in France as it is the biggest publication in graphic novel this september. His universe is somewhere between Blade Runner and the Matrix and my character is closer to Rutger Hauer than Harrison Ford. The title is Vega by Yann Legendre and Serge Lehman. Yann is building worlds that will define aesthetically the future of Blade Runner. For those who are not in France you can order the book on Amazon.fr ( amazon France ). Photo below Marc Vinciguerra and Yann Legendre having Aperol Spritz.