A CONVERSATION WITH AN ART CRITIC IN A RIVA

IN THE STUDIO MOUNTING THE TRANSFIGURATION FOR VENICE

THE BAPTISM OF THE TRIPTYCH IN VENICE

I was in Venice for multiple reasons recently and I met with the curators of my show next year. My Opus Magnum The Triptych of The Religion of Atheism will premiere in Venice. The past years participants of this show were Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Sir Anthony Gormley, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Kosuth among other many talented artists. I am honored to have been chosen this year to participate. A five hundred pages catalogue will be published.

VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE 2018

I have been invited next year as a sculptor to show my work during the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018. My beloved Triptych The Religion of Atheism will be installed in a Venetian/Gothic/Byzantine fifteen century Palazzo for 6 months in front of the Grand Canal. For the first time during the Biennale of Architecture a foundation has chosen 30 sculptors in the world to show their work near architects. I am enchanted to see that the bond between sculpture and architecture that disappeared for one hundred years is starting again.

A FILM BY DIRK VAN DEN EYNDEN

This is a movie directed by the great cinematographer Dirk Van Den Eynden. Dirk contacted me about 3 years ago saying he wanted to do a movie on me.Dirk has more than 300 movies made in his life on artists . He started in the Seventies and ended up representing his country at the biennale of Venice. His approach of filming an artist is very different from what we usually know about an art film . He revolutionized the biography of the artist . And this is how, he does not interview and he does not film . Ok that might sounds strange to you but he asks the artist to give him hundreds of images, films and texts that are important in the artist life. And from there he starts composing with these images a great biographical symphony. The traditional documentary will ask question to the artist and the artist will answer on a chair sitting in front of his work. Dirk explodes this traditional code and the reason is that we rarely say the truth about ourselves even when we are sincere memory and imagination tend to fuse and give a false idea of our life to us and to the spectator . By making a detour from a direct interview the director arrives directly at the center of the brain of the artist and gives a TRUE picture of the self, not the one that we want to give but the one ( very different ) that IS. Dirk Van Den Eynden realizes through his films the dream of Art which is to merge reality and truth. It has been an honor to be the subject of one of his film and more than this it has been a pleasure to become his friend through the making of that film.To define his work I would happily coin the term of metaphysical biography!

Movie on Marc Vinciguerra by Dirk Van Den Eyden from Marc Vinciguerra on Vimeo.