THE HEAD OF THE VOID I

UN POEME MYSTIQUE

    LE DIEU NOIR

                                   

   L' Eclipse des dieux dans le ciel d'un jaune bilieux

     A enfonce' dans le cadavre de la religion un pieu

      L' Eclipse theologique a entenebre' le monde

      Elle a eclabousse' de sang la foi moribonde 

Mais cet Astre noir

Affirme le poete dans un or, vert et noir peignoir

C'est Dieu lui-meme

Cette Etoile noire est des idoles le requiem

C'est l'Abime d'en haut qui rayonne

C'est la nouvelle verite' qui carillonne

C' est le Neant illuminant

Des dieux agonisants

C'est le nouveau Mystere

Et des anciennes religions le cimetiere

C'est la lumiere noire

C'est le grand rayon du desespoir

Emanant du gouffre divin

C'est le saint delire Abyssin

Ce sont les rayons noirs du Neant

Adorons ce nouveau Dieu Noir maintenant

Car c'est le soleil d'en bas

C'est le Mystere du tres-bas

   Adorons ce nouveau Dieu noir ici-bas

Car il n'y a point de la-bas

Car c'est lui qui refermera l'Abime

De nos extases sous-marines

Dans le ciel incolore

Les dieux sont morts

Et je benirai cet Abime stupefiant

Car j'ai cathedralise' le Neant!

                                                                      

                                                                                    Marc Vinciguerra

NEW MODEL ALVIN AILEY DANCE THEATER NEW-YORK

I am very excited to have for new model the legendary dancer from Alvin Ailey New-York company Andre Tyson. We have been wanting to work together for many years. Andre Tyson is joining my team of extraordinary models. I very carefully select, I want them to be sculpture in real life so is Andre Tyson a walking masterpiece that will soon be the model for many new creations.

A THEOLOGICAL POEM

This is one of the thing in my life I am most proud of. When I was 17 years old I was in philosophy class and my teacher carried under his arm a book. The year 1987 is the year I discovered philosophy. I followed my teacher in the corridors of the school to write down the title of the book he was holding under his arm. A book freshly published that a author sent to him. The same year I got one of the highest grade of my school in philosophy. The next year in 1988 I enroll to the university of the Sorbonne in philosophy where the author of this book was teaching. He gave me the highest grade of the University. His name is Andre' Comte-Sponville and he is today considered in France as the most important philosopher since Jean-Paul Sartre. I have been writing a book of philosophy since I am 17 years old. It was always my dream to write a big religious poem. I today have achieved this, my manuscript is a more than 300 pages long philosophical poem. It took three decades to write it because I wanted the book to write its self and also I wanted the book to be a complete philosophical system.Today my manuscript is almost finished and will be discussed by the world's greatest theologians at the American Academy of Religion later this month, the oldest gathering of theologians in America since 1909. It is not just a book of philosophy it lays the foundational principles of a new theology. These 30 years of contemplation were very worthwhile, I spent the most beautiful hours of my life writing this long theological poem. The University of Loyola Marymount will present the lecture and Harvard University will answer.

MY NEW GALLERY IN NEW-YORK CITY

I am delighted to disclose my new official page at Georges Berges Gallery=

 https://www.bergesgallery.com/marc-vinciguerra

NEW-YORK, BERLIN, MEXICO

Me and Georges at Georges Berges Gallery in New-York City surrounded by the work of Pollock, Carone and De Kooning discussing with great joy our future projects.

THE GOLDEN WORDS OF LEGENDARY GEORGES BERGES

MY NEW GALLERY IN MANHATTAN AND BERLIN

I am now officially represented by Georges Berges Gallery in Manhattan and Berlin. Georges is the most exciting gallerist I have met in my life he has the brain of Francis Bacon, the life of Oscar Wilde and the sensivity of Rilke. Actually my heart hurts when I talk about him because I cannot fully contain the magnificence of his persona. We look foreword to give to the world very special projects.

LECTURE AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION

Next month the great American theologian Dr Tracy Tiemeier will give a lecture on my work at the American Academy of Religion. The response to the lecture will be given by a distinguished theologian from Harvard University.

SHARING A CATALOGUE WITH YOKO ONO

MY SPEECH AT THE MUSEUM

HISTORY BOOK PUBLISHED

Extraordinary feeling today to be in an history book. A book has been published in Germany called UTOPIAN AESTHETICS beautifully written by art historian Felicitas Ehrhardt about the history of a monastery/artist studio. It happens to be the studio where I lived and work for 4 years. Leonardo da Vinci, Wagner, Strauss, Bocklin, Fusseli, Henri James they all stayed and worked in this mysterious monastery where I conceived my Triptych The Religion of Atheism.

INTERVIEW WITH THE SICILIAN POST IN ENGLISH

This is the English version of my interview with the Sicilian Post. The Italian newspaper has published the interview both in Italian and in english. This is a beautiful article where the journalist defines my aesthetic as a theology without God. This is the English version:

https://www.sicilianpost.it/en/the-first-atheistic-theology-in-the-art-of-marc-vinciguerra/

MAGNIFICENT ARTICLE IN THE SICILIAN POST

I received a brilliant article about my work in The Sicilian Post. This article was made when I was interviewed in the Museum. The journalists at the Sicilian Post are geniuses, this article is excellent.https://www.sicilianpost.it/la-teologia-senza-dio-nellarte-di-marc-vinciguerra/

OFFICIAL PHOTO OF THE MUSEUM

READING MY PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY AT THE INAUGURATION

THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SICILY

SUBLIME PARTY AT THE MUSEUM IN SICILY

TEXTS BY THE DIRECTOR AND THE SENIOR CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM

Text by the Director of the Museum:

"Fin dalla notte dei tempi i nostri antenati guardavano al firmamento come luogo del trascendente. Una distanza che appariva infinita, quella tra il Cielo e la Terra – ha spiegato Giuseppina Napoli (Direttrice MacS Catania) -. Nonostante oggi il Cosmo sia sempre meno lontano e meno sconosciuto, in quella stessa distanza ancora risiedono i più grandi e assoluti interrogativi dell’Uomo. È un bisogno insito nella sua fragilità temporale la ricerca di Dio o la sua negazione. Prima dell’Idolatria, della divinazione, della Religione, della Filosofia, della Teologia viene sempre l’Uomo con le sue domande. E ancora oggi, mentre la robotica conquista il nuovo millennio nessuna Scienza e nessuna Religione hanno risposte certe da esibire,lasciando ai singoli e alla loro personale e intima ricerca una risposta o un dubbio perenne. Ed ecco che l’Arte, chiave magica di ciò che si pone tra l’Uomo e l’Altrove, torna ancora e ancora a porci l’eterno quesito. Marc Vinciguerra esplora con rara sensibilità attraverso la matericità delle sue opere la strada della spiritualità umana, atea, laica, credente, ma sempre umana. Ed è all’Uomo e alla sua ricerca tendente all’infinito o al finito cui l’artista dedica un trittico di grande intensità espressiva ed emotiva, un momento di sosta tra la ricerca e il credo”.

Text by the Senior Curator of the Museum:

"IL Trittico ‘The Religion of Atheism’ che Marc Vinciguerra espone negli spazi del MacS, sovverte l’imperativo darwiniano ed al contempo rinnega ogni possibile dogma – dichiara il Professor Adriano Pricoco (Accademia della Belle Arti di Catania) -. Per comprendere la metodologia operativa dell’artista francese bisogna sottolineare che l’uomo è l’epicentro della sua ricerca. Non l’istanza paradigmatica di un pool memico all’interno del quale possano trovare terreno fertile asserzioni di natura dualistica. È evidente che la figura umana si erga a metafora di identità contrapposta all’alterità del dogma religioso. Del resto la figura dell’artista ha già un ché di spirituale, l’atto della creazione contiene in se una componente dogmatica. Ma soffermiamoci sulla figura metaforica: come afferma lo stesso artista, l’intento è trovare una spiritualità post-Dio, una identità non deliberatamente laica, bensì consapevole, intellettualmente conscia che possa portare ad una nuova definizione di Sacro, sebbene non di natura teleologica”.

NEW ARTICLE IN ITALIAN MAGAZINE

I am delighted to see this morning in five different italian news papers the announcement of the acquisition of my Triptych by the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Sicily, this is one of them:

 https://newsicilia-it.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/newsicilia.it/cultura/al-macs-protagonista-marc-vinciguerra-con-la-mostra-evento-di-cielo-e-di-terra/428303/amp?usqp=mq331AQMmAHQ07W6kdCspaEB&amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnewsicilia.it%2Fcultura%2Fal-macs-protagonista-marc-vinciguerra-con-la-mostra-evento-di-cielo-e-di-terra%2F428303

THE VAN-GOGH OF MIAMI

I am very happy to share a show with the legendary Purvis Young. I call Purvis the Van-Gogh of Miami. Purvis was the anti-Koons, he was poor and only riveted to his art. He was a mystic instead of a parasite. He spent his life getting always closer to his vision. Now the price of his paintings are skyrocketing and I am sure that if he was still alive he would not have even noticed. Charles Peguy the French poet use to say in 1900 you have the mystics in life who find something to live for and you have the parasites who live from other people inspiration. He was a rare artist, the only kind of artist. You can still see him with the eyes of memory on his bike in the streets of Miami with his huge book of visions on his steering wheel.

MY INTERVIEW WITH COMBUSTUS MAGAZINE

I recently had the immense pleasure to be interviewed by Combustus Magazine. You can read the interview at the following link :
https://combustus.com

MY POEM ON HEIDEGGER PUBLISHED IN VENICE

OPENING OF THE 58TH VENICE BIENNALE OF ART

The oldest statue in the world 38 000 Before Christ

THE NEW MYSTICAL RACE

                                           

THE NEW MYSTICAL RACE

A

POEM

WE ARE THE FOUNDERS OF THE ATHEIST THEOLOGY

TO SPEAK LIKE A PEGUIST

WE ARE THE RACE THAT IS TEMPORALLY EXHAUSTED

AND SPIRITUALLY MAGNIFIED

WE ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE LOST TEMPORALLY

AND WON SPIRITUALLY

WE ARE THE RACE OF THE MYSTICS

THE RACE OF THE NEW MYSTICS

THE RACE OF THE THEOLOGIANS OF THE DEATH OF GOD

THE ONES WHO HAVE OPENED THE PORTAL OF SACRED NIHILISM

THE NEW SAINTS OF ATHEISM

WHO BATH IN THE MYSTERIES OF NIHILISM

THE NIHILIST REVOLUTION IS THE FOUNDER OF A NEW RELIGIOUS ORDER

A SACRED ORDER WITH NO GOD

YOU KNOW THAT THE GODS ARE COMING BACK ON EARTH

WHEN YOU WALK

AND YOUR HEART IS ONE WITH THE DAWN

I SEE THE MYSTICAL RACE

WALKING TOWARDS THE LAST GOD

THE NEW MYSTICAL RACE OF THE BUILDERS OF THE SECULAR RELIGION

JUDAS SAVED MAN FROM GOOD AND EVIL

BY GIVING MAN DIRECTLY TO GOD

JUDAS HAS GIVEN OUR HEART TO NIHILISM

SO WE COULD SEE GOD

A NEW MYSTICAL GENERATION HAS RISEN

THAT WILL DESTROY NIHILISM

BY REVEALING ITS DIVINE ESSENCE

THAT WILL MAKE NIHILISM ''LA NOUVELLE MYSTIQUE

LA MYSTIQUE NIHILISTE''

THAT WE CAN LIVE FOR

THE NEW MYSTICAL RACE BRINGS THE GOOD NEWS TO THE CITY OF NIHILISM

GOD IS DEAD! AND HIS DEATH HAS REVEALED THE DIVINE!!!

GEORGES BATAILLE USE TO SAY OF NIETZSCHE

THAT HE HAS REVEALED THE ABSENCE OF GOD

THE NEW MYSTICAL GENERATION GOES FURTHER THAN THAT

YES! GEORGES BATAILLE IS RIGHT ABOUT NIETZSCHE

BUT THERE IS MORE TO THIS

THIS REVELATION OF THE ABSENCE OF GOD

MAKES NIETZSCHE THE GREATEST SAINT OF THE NINETEEN CENTURY!

BECAUSE IT IS THE ABSENCE OF GOD THAT REVEALS THE DIVINE

SO US TODAY

WHO ARE TEMPORALLY DESTROYED

AND SPIRITUALLY VICTORIOUS

WE DISCLOSE, DECLARE AND SIGN

THE FIRST ATHEIST THEOLOGY.

Marc Vinciguerra

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION

I am delighted to disclose that there will be a lecture on my work as a Sculptor and as a Philosopher of Religion at The American Academy of Religion this year. The American Academy of Religion was born in 1909 and is the world's largest organization of scholars devoted in the field of theology. They publish a Journal with Oxford University Press which is the most respected journal on the field of religious studies. A lecture will be presented on my work during the 2019 Annual Meeting. The greatest theologians of our time will gather with 10 000 attendees. The lecture will discuss my body of work as a Sculptor from The Triptych of the Religion of Atheism to The Transfiguration and also my poems will be discussed, studied and explained. I am honored and fascinated to hear this lecture on my body of work. All my life I have worked towards a theological intuition that I displayed through statues, poems and philosophical writings. I always encrypt theological cyphers in my compositions before I even sculpt. It is therefore an immense joy to hear the remarkable research of Theologians who believe today that there is something new in the field of theology that is blooming in my work.

MY TRIPTYCH ACQUIRED BY A MUSEUM

I am deliriously happy to announce that the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily is acquiring my Triptych of The Religion of Atheism for their permanent collections. What destiny this Triptych had. Last year the Triptych went from the harbor of New-York to the harbor of Venice for a 6 months exhibition and this year it goes from the harbor of Venice to Sicily to be for ever in an old Benedictine Monastery protected by the UNESCO as world heritage. I am very proud to be part of this Museum, the MACS is building a very important collection thanks to the extraordinary eye of its director. This collection has been recently praised very deservedly by the New-York Times. After I signed the contract, I felt that my heart belongs to Sicily.

THE TRANSFIGURATION ON ITS WAY TO VENICE

My Transfiguration is on its way to Venice for a 6 months exhibition in an old 15th century Palazzo. My heart is beating high.