FOUNDATION CINI 2017

I am honored to have been invited for the fourth time at the Foundation Cini during The Alpine Fellowship 2017. The greatest philosophers of our time will gather again with a small group of artists to envision the future of Art and Philosophy in a closed monastery. It is one of the most beautiful experience of my life to be part of the conversation for the past 4 years. For me to walk on the Palladian pavement in such company is like breathing the oxygen of a transcendental world. Each time I have the privilege to stay in this extraordinary gathering, the words of Schelling are beating in my heart :


'' I AM SPEAKING OF A MORE SACRED ART. AN ART THAT IN THE WORDS OF

ANTIQUITY IS THE TOOL OF THE GODS. THE PROCLAIMER OF DIVINE MYSTERIES.

THE UNVEILER OF THE IDEAS. I AM SPEAKING ABOUT THIS UNBORN BEAUTY WHOSE

UNDESECRATED RADIANCE DWELLS IN AND ONLY IN PURER AND ILLUMINATED

SOULS.''


Schelling The Philosophy of Art ( 1804 )

FOUNDATION CINI VENICE 2016

Sir Roger Scruton, jacob Burda, Alan Lawson, Marc Vinciguerra, Hubert Burda, Maria Furtwängler, Raymond Tallis, Julian Spalding, Mark Wrathall, Andrew Graham Dixon, Pasquale Gagliardi, Harry Eyres, Shaun Berke

FOUNDATION CINI : TO REMETAPHYSIZE ART

I am most delighted to be invited to the Foundation Cini in Venice.  For the third year in a row, as an artist, I will be joining the distinguished Alpine Fellowship.  I am honored and humbled to be part of this cloister of extraordinary minds.To bring back philosophers and artists together is one of the most important task for our civilization today. Philosophy and Art together will remetaphysize art and that is exactly what is needed and it is what I am trying to do in sculpture since 20 years.Did I say art ? No I meant Art this activity that use to be civilization-defining since 7000 years. I can't wait to see you my friends...