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

THE CINI FOUNDATION 2017: MY TWO WINGS

Sir Roger Scruton, Jacob Burda, Alan Lawson, Hubert Burda, Raymond Tallis, John Burnside, Maria Furtwangler, Julian Spalding, Alison Sudol, Andrew Huddleston, Michael Lesslie, Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen, Gillian Clarke, Marc Vinciguerra, Hubert Burda

                                           
                                   

ANOTHER BOOK PUBLISHED

So hysterically happy to see my art in a new publication graced with incredible texts by Sir Roger Scruton who wrote a sublime manuscript called The Point of Intersection of the Timeless with Time and other texts by Julian Spalding who is I believe the John Ruskin of our times and many other illuminated minds that I had the immense privilege to share the Fellowship with in the monastery of the Fondation Cini. Jacob Burda and Alan Lawson have created what is the highest cultural circle in Europe today where High Art and High Philosophy meet to create the future of Art. Like the president of the Foundation Cini Pasquale Gagliardi told me eloquently two days ago quoting Gustav Mahler, what we care about is ''the Fire of Tradition''. To follow the thought of Gustav Mahler, we are Adoring the fire and not the ashes. The Alpine Fellowship makes it every year more and more clear to the world that the Golden Age of culture is not lost. We will regain the right for art to be deep and sublime.

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...

The Congregation of the Extraordinary Minds

ARTICLE IN THE SPECTATOR

MARC VINCIGUERRA AT THE FOUNDATION CINI

The Alpine Fellowship 2015 in association with the Foundation Cini in Venice have organized this  symposium lead by the great painter Alan Lawson and brillant philosopher Jacob Burda.This is my second year at the fellowship , last year I was invited in Scotland and this year it is happening in Venice on the Isola San Giorgio Maggiore . I am delighted to have been invited to share my ideas about sculpture at the Foundation Cini.The two founders of the Prize asked me to make a movie about my sculpture.There will be three movies screened this year by artists Alan Lawson , Odd Nerdrum and my-self . The guests of the 2015 fellowship are Roger Scruton Professor of Aesthetics at Oxford University , Ian Mac Ewan Writer author of the book and Oscar winning movie Atonement , Philip Rylands Director of the Guggenheim Museum , Ruth Padle England's great poetess and Professor of poetry at Oxford University , John Burnside poet winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize , Film Writer Michael Lesslie , Harry Eyres a great poet and  journalist at Newsweek and Victor Chan who wrote two books with the Dalai-Lama.

Who we are by Roger Scruton Professor of Aesthetic at Oxford

http://www.alpinefellowship.com/#!forward/chuf

THE POST-CONTEMPORARY AVANT-GARDE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-i12aFRfE4&feature=youtu.be

Roger Scruton Lecture at the Fellowship

http://digiqualia.com/lecture/roger-scruton/

Harry Eyres writes in the Financial Times about our wonderful week-end in the Highlands of Art and Philosophy...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b92ae874-f868-11e3-815f-00144feabdc0.html

WINNER OF THE 2014 ALPINE FELLOWSHIP

I am honored to have won the 2014 Alpine Fellowship that will happen this year in a castle in Scotland. I look forward to share thoughts and perspective about Art , Religion , Atheology and Illuminism and why this four forces are meeting in the 21 century in the history of Art which I eagerly separate from the history of Anti-Art. I am thrilled to join the discussion with this group of scholars from Oxford University and Columbia University and professors of aesthetic one of which is one of England greatest philosopher  Roger Scruton , author of this wonderful show on the BBC '' Why Beauty Matters ''. In my opinion this group is the brain of the Avant-garde. I am delighted to have won this prize and I look forward to spend time with such beautiful minds.