LECTURE ON THE ESSENCE OF SCULPTURE AT THE FOUNDATION CINI

I am delighted to have been invited this week to give a lecture/workshop on sculpture at the Foundation Cini during the Alpine Fellowship 2018. I am extremely fortunate to speak about the essence of sculpture to a cenacle of such beautiful minds. I am very moved to receive my fifth invitation, the Fellows are sacred to me. This is a view of the Foundation Cini through the Palazzo Ducale, this Island will be closed to the public and ours for three days.

TRAILER OF THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP 2017

This is the trailer of our last reunion in the Monastery of the Foundation Cini in Venice with Sir Roger Scruton, click on the following link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN4V2H6Umzk

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