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.

SUSPENSION TEST FOR VENICE

IN THE STUDIO MOUNTING THE TRANSFIGURATION FOR VENICE

58TH BIENNALE OF ART VENICE 2019

I am very honored to have been invited by a Venetian Foundation to exhibit my new sculpture The Transfiguration in Venice during the 58th Biennale of Art in 2019. My monumental statue will be suspended 6 feet above the ground by cables attached to the magnificent ceiling of a 15th century Palazzo. This year the Foundation is excepting 500 000 visitors during a period of 6 months. I could have not imagined a better place for the world premiere of my Transfiguration. We are working with an architect to have the installation floats above the crowd like if we were to witness a real Transfiguration. As said William Blake ''Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow''.

The Artist and his Muse

HEIDEGGER A PROPHECY

                                    

HEIDEGGER A PROPHECY

WHY ARTISTS IN TIME OF DESOLATION ASKS HEIDEGGER

THE ARTIST IS THE ONE WHO KEEPS TRACK OF THE GODS


EVEN IF THERE IS NO GOD ANYMORE

THE HERO IS THE ONE WHO KEEPS TRACK OF THE GODS IN THE AGE OF NIHILISM

TODAY THE NIHILIST KEEPS TRACK OF THE LAST GOD

THE AGE OF NIHILISM IS THE AGE OF TRANSITIONAL NIHILISM

THE AGE OF TRANSITIONAL NIHILISM IS OVER

THE LAST GOD IS NIHILISM IT-SELF

THE DIVINE EMERGES FROM THE CONFRONTATION WITH NIHILISM

WE CAN NOW FULLY RECONNECT WITH THE SACRED

WE ARE ALL VICTIMS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL ERROR

THE ERROR OF THE 20th CENTURY IS TO HAVE CONFUSED

TRANSITIONAL NIHILISM WITH THE ESSENCE OF NIHILISM

THE ERROR CARRIES ON IN THE 21st CENTURY

WE STILL ASSOCIATE NIHILISM WITH PESSIMISM

INSTEAD OF RUNNING AWAY FROM NIHILISM

ONE MUST CONFRONT AND ATTUNE WITH NIHILISM

THIS ATTUNEMENT WITH NIHILISM IS GOD

PESSIMISM IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NIHILIST REVELATION

LETS BURN THE DICTIONARY TO DISCOVER THE DEFINITION OF THE REAL

AND LETS DISCOVER WHAT TRANSFIGURATION REALLY MEANS TODAY

THE TRANSFIGURATION IS THE INCARNATION OF THE LAST GOD

                                                                                                                             Marc   Vinciguerra

Detail of the Transfiguration

The Back of The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration

Study for a Transfiguration 4

1 HOUR BEFORE THE SHOW IN VENICE

Study for a Transfiguration 3

Study for a Transfiguration 2

Study for a Transfiguration 1

GAA FOUNDATION VENICE 2018

Construction of a new body 2

Construction of a new body 1

MARKOWICZ: MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT PREMIER GALLERY

MARKOWICZ FINE ART

I am delighted to share the news - you can now find my work at Markowicz Fine Art, my new gallery in Miami. Markowicz Fine Art is one of the top 5 galleries in Miami. The gallery deals the works of internationally renowned artists such as: Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Bernard Buffet, Fernando Botero, Jean Cocteau, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Orlinski, Rudolf Burda, Idan Zareski, Yayoi Kusama, Antonio Tapies and Maurice Renoma among other very talented artists. I am very proud to be part of this marvelous group. I currently have bronzes on display in the gallery so please stop by if you find yourself in Miami! Here is the link: https://markowiczfineart.com/artists/marc-vinciguerra

12 000 COPIES

TEXT OF A THEOLOGIAN ON THE TRIPTYCH

Reading a text in Venice that the great american Theologian Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier PHD and Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los-Angeles wrote about my Triptych The Religion of Atheism. I had for many years an infinite admiration for her work and her revolutionary research in theology. Of course we recognize art criticism as a genre, of course we recognize also philosophy of art as genre since Schelling established it in 1804 but what about theology of art ? Lets try to define this new genre, theology of art: how the belief in the supernormal world influences an aesthetic. This definition is acceptable but a little too classic lets try a more contemporary definition, theology of art: how the death of God influences an aesthetic. That is a little closer. Now lets try a third and final definition of Theology of art: how atheism as a religious experience influences an aesthetic. That is exactly what I show in this Triptych beautifully explained and written by this contemporary theologian. The artist is seen as a new Faust who solves the too old and too insignificant duality between nihilism and religion by reconciling them in the religion of atheism.

READING THEOLOGY IN VENICE

DINER IN VENICE AFTER MY LECTURE ON THE ESSENCE OF SCULPTURE

SPLENDOR OF THE ALPINE FELLOWSHIP

Thursday 21 of June 2018 at 8:30pm all the Fellowship was reunited in the cloister of the Cypresses of the Foundation Cini in Venice for Diner. This evening was the most beautiful evening of my life. I never thought that there was such a thing as ''the most beautiful moment of your life'' I thought that every moment is always mixed with joy and sadness. But not this evening. Under the cloister designed by Palladio I was honored this evening as a speaker by the Founders of the Fellowship in front of all the people that I admire the most in my life. As the founder was making a moving speech about our long friendship and what I have achieved in the art of sculpture as I was standing up, more that 50 writers, philosophers and art critics were in the cloister this evening. Among the people I admire the most at the Fellowship is Jacob Burda the founder of the Prize, since I saw him enter the door of Aldourie castle in Scotland 5 years ago when I won the Prize in 2014 I immediately identified him as a reincarnation of Lord Byron, Alan Lawson also the Founder of the Prize who is my favorite painter in this world, there are two kinds of artists, the one who tries to get close to his dream and the one whose canvas is equal to his dream to the point that you cannot make a difference between the dream and the work Alan is this artist, the splendid lecturer and art critic from the BBC Andrew Graham-Dixon who is an extraordinary mix of Erwin Panofski and the Monty Python in his lecture you always learn the deepest things about art and laugh at his impeccable Victorian humour, the art critic Julian Spalding who won the Banister Fletcher Prize for his wonderful book The Art of Wonder, a conversation about my Triptych with Julian is one of the most beautiful memory I have during these three days, John Burnside the winner of the T.S Eliot Prize whose elegance as a human being is equal to the excellence of his art, then a wonder appeared this evening Nell Leyshon, the first woman in history to be accepted as a writer at the Globe Shakespeare theater in London, her improvised lecture was a masterpiece, Chris Prendergast who edited for 7 years the 1,25 millions words of A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu for Penguin Publishing House who revealed him-self to be a tremendous sculptor during my lecture,the warm and beautiful conversationalist Mo Ogrodnik who won the writing Prize this year, Jenifer Wakelin who did a sumptuous lecture on epistemophilia and of course Sir Roger Scruton the great philosopher of Beauty who has been the archangel of this fellowship since the very beginning. To be honored as a speaker this evening was the most important evening of my life. This evening my heart touched the sky. May be that is what the cloisters were invented for.