THE NIHILIST ECSTASY

GRAVITY AND GRACE/LA PESANTEUR ET LA GRACE

NEW INTERVIEW WITH NEW-YORK MUSEUM CURATOR

See the complete interview at https://www.zephyrandmaize.com/post/in-conversation-with-marc-vinciguerra

THE CREATION AND THE ARTIST

"Facing the Void ©️ 2020 Marc Vinciguerra. All rights reserved."

THE SCULPTURE GARDEN IS INSTALLED

FACING THE VOID A SCULPTURE DIPTYCH

INSTALLING THE FIRST SCULPTURE GARDEN IN AMERICA DEDICATED TO MY WORK

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF SICILY

            photo courtesy of Massimiliano Privitera

TONIGHT IN NEW-YORK CITY

GROUP SHOW AT GEORGES BERGES GALLERY NEW YORK CITY

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EDITING MY 300 PAGES PHILOSOPHICAL POEM IN MY BATH

THE VEIL I

THE HEAD OF THE VOID II

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