INVITATION TO THE 2023 BOMBAY BIENNALE

 

THE MAN WHO TAUGHT ME PHENOMENOLOGY

Jean-Toussaint Desanti he was my professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He was friend with Sartre and Malraux and was the professor of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. He taught me phenomenology with a clarity that I will never forget. One day I asked him how to create a new philosophy and he said to me you have to sit in the failure of a system then only two things can happen either the system stays strong and then it is a solid one or the system explodes and you found something new. Last time I saw him it was at the Grand Oral exam on Husserl at the Sorbonne in which he gave me the maximum grade and at the end of the exam he told me that I should learn Corsican because we shared the same origin of being both from this island. He used to always have 5 books open on his desk at all time that would change but there was one that was always open and that was the Metaphysics of Aristotle. I will never forget that man who had the three great qualities for a philosopher, extraordinary clarity, extraordinary kindness and extraordinary silence.

THIRD NOMINATION FOR A LITTERARY PRIZE IN FRANCE FOR VEGA

 

PROFESSOR FICHTE OR THE KEY OF THE INVISIBLE CATHEDRAL

 

NOMINATED FOR BEST SCIENCE-FICTION GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022

 A warm congratulation to Yann Legendre and Serge Lehman the authors of the graphic novel Vega in which I am featured as the enigmatic Alter Pongo is nominated for best science-fiction graphic novel of the year 2022 in Paris and for another award in Angouleme. 

HERO OF A SCIENCE-FICTION NOVEL

 About 2 years ago the insanely talented portraitist for the newspaper Le Monde in Paris who worked for George Lucas and revamped the logo of American express asked me to be the hero of his next science fiction graphic novel. Since yesterday the graphic novel graces the shelves of every bookstores in France as it is the biggest publication in graphic novel this september. His universe is somewhere between Blade Runner and the Matrix and my character is closer to Rutger Hauer than Harrison Ford. The title is Vega by Yann Legendre and Serge Lehman. Yann is building worlds that will define aesthetically the future of Blade Runner. For those who are not in France you can order the book on Amazon.fr ( amazon France ). Photo below Marc Vinciguerra and Yann Legendre having Aperol Spritz.

VARIOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF CARAVAGGIO

 

After I finished my copy of Caravaggio for the church, I made some research and discovered painters who did also a copy of the same painting. It was fun for me to align them and compare. The first one is mine and the other below are from Gericault, Rubens and Cezanne.

                                              Vinciguerra

Gericault

Rubens

Cezanne

                   

 

THE CONCEPT OF RELIGIONLESS RELIGION

 

When we speak about resistance in the second world war we always speak about the French resistance but we must not forget that there was a German resistance as well against Nazi Germany made of refined German intellectuals, philosophers and avant garde theologians. Such was the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

While a German in the prison of Tegel he composed sublime letters on theology. He basically created a theological testament for the church of the future. In his cell he had the revelation of the concept of religionless religion.

He realized the growing religiouslessness of our age and therefore the urgency to preach religion in a non-religious way to be understood in a godless world. Therefore in the solitude of his cell he built another Christ for modernity that he called The Lord of the religionless.

Bonhoeffer set up the avant garde theology by asking the right questions such as= what is a secular God? Why to live without God is to live in him? How to speak of God in a Godless world? By being the first to speak of religionless religion he was the first to act on the great religious revolution of our times which is the apparition of God in religiouslessness.

UMBERTO ECO

 

Visiting the Sacra di San Michele where Umberto Eco filmed The Name of the Rose. It is moving to see this pulpit carved in the rock 3000 feet in the air on which William of Ockham might have preached his forbidden philosophy which is Nominalism. It is interesting that the most important religious revolutions have happened inside the church and not against the church. The legacy of Nominalism who raised against Scholasticism is enormous and inspired Luther, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, it is even considered by some as the father of phenomenology. What a legacy for a monk from the fourteen century!

William of Ockham showed that the appropriation by the church of the philosophical quest for universal essences by Aristotle and Plato was wrong. For Ockham the reality of essences is only nominal, meaning it is just a word, what exist is only subjectivity. Therefore if God were to be found anywhere it is not in knowledge but in experience.

What Umberto Eco does not say is that William of Ockham was the developer of Nominalism but not the inventor of it. The inventor of Nominalism was Roscelin de Compiegne a French Monk from the twelve century. His theory that God might be just a word got him persecuted by the church, he had to leave France and became protected by the University of Oxford.

The simple opposition between religion and atheism is intellectually very poor but on the other hand the opposition of religion against religion is fascinating. To enrich theology we need the religious opposing religion and a new atheism opposing the old atheism. Or even in contemporary philosophy I dream of a nihilism which could rise against nihilism.

THE LORD IS BACK TO THE MONASTERY

 

The Lord is back to the monastery. No furnitures has changed since Richard Wagner and Cosima stayed here many times. I learned this morning that someone here has studied with C.S. Lewis in Oxford, which explains the Narniaesque feeling of this place. This is the only place in the world I call home.

THE PAINTING ENTERING THE CHURCH

 

INSTALLATION AT THE CHURCH

 

MY COPY OF CARAVAGGIO FOR THE CHURCH

THE INVISIBLE CATHEDRAL = PORTAL FOR A NEW RELIGIOUS WORLD

 

"The Invisible Cathedral ©️ 2022-2024 Marc Vinciguerra. All rights reserved."

VOGUE MAGAZINE PLACES THE BOMBAY BIENNALE IN THE TOP 5 OF ART FESTIVALS IN CALIFORNIA

 

MY LECTURE ON NIHILISM AT THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE

 

THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE IN WWD MAGAZINE

 

LECTURE ON MY THEOLOGY AT THE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

 Me translating the seven principles of my theology from Latin to English during my public lecture at the philosophy conference of the Bombay Beach Biennale 2022.

THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

THE INVISIBLE CATHEDRAL

 

LECTURE ON THE DEATH OF NIHILISM AT THE INSTITUTE OF METAPHYSICS

 

THE MAKING OF THE PORTAL

 The making of the Portal: before the Portal was installed at the Bombay Beach Biennale I worked on each panels separately, inserting the 22 heads of Nietzsche, Wagner, Heidegger, Altizer, engraving in subzero temperature the principles of my theology and translating my philosophy in Latin. It has been an eternal joy to create a sacred object that embodies the art of sculpture, 181 years of history of philosophy and the palpitating heart of my own theology. 30 years of meditation encompassed in 7 sentences elevated vertically in the religious desert of California.

NOEMA MAGAZINE ON THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE 2022

 

THE INVISIBLE CATHEDRAL: PORTAL FOR A NEW RELIGIOUS WORLD

 

MY PERMANENT INSTALLATION IN THE DESERT OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE

 

INVITATION TO THE BOMBAY BEACH BIENNALE 2022

I am delighted to be invited to the Bombay Beach Biennale 2022 both as a sculptor and as a philosopher. I will be installing my latest monumental sculpture in the desert of California and I will also give a lecture at the academic conference.

PORTRAIT OF THE SOUL/PORTRAIT DE L'AME

 

CORPUS LUCIS=THE BODY OF LIGHT

 "The Body of Light ©️ 2021 Marc Vinciguerra. All rights reserved."