La Brother Sun Foundation was invited to participate in Koinèthe international religious art fair, which will be held in Vicenza from 24 to 26 October 2021.
The Frate Sole Foundation will actively participate with meetings and exhibitions:
– Monday 25 at 17.30 will discuss the Frate Sole Sacred Architecture Awards with . Mons. Fabrizio Capanni of Pontifical Council for Culture . arch. Luigi LeoniPresident of the Brother Sun Foundation . the winner of the2020 edition (Prize for built churches) arch. Axel Frühauf . the winner of theedition 2021 (Prize for churches designed during university theses) arch. Francesco Menegato;
– Sunday 24 to Tuesday 26 with works of Father Constantine in the dedicated exhibition areas: . OBJECTS FOR LITURGICAL USE European production scenario; . THE GLORIOUS MISSIONARY CROSS contemporary interpretations; . THE LIGHT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT contemporary European stained glass and mosaics; . THE 'FRIAR SUN' SACRED ARCHITECTURE AWARD Projects, sketches from major editions.
WEBINAR PRESENTATION OF THE VOLUME
'FATHER COSTANTINO RUGGERI FRANCISCAN ARTIST'
The 19 December from 17.00 at 6.30 p.m. the Brescia Diocesan Museumin collaboration with the Brother Sun Foundation, hosts in webinar mode the Presentation of the book 'Father Costantino Ruggeri Franciscan artist'. (Silvana Editoriale), a volume (edited by Prof. Maria Antonietta Crippa) collecting the works of the multifaceted Brescian artist. It will be an in-depth look at the artistic career of Father Constantine, painter, sculptor and builder of more than 30 churches; a true innovator of sacred art and the creator of the Frate Sole Foundation.
The webinar can be followed on the Facebook of the Brother Sun Foundation https://www.facebook.com/fondazionefratesole/ For those who want to follow it from the platform Zoomyou must register with the secretariat: segreteria.museo@diocesi.brescia.it
Speakers will be: Msgr. Gabriele Filippini - Director of the Brescia Diocesan Museum Arch. Luigi Leoni - President of the Frate Sole Foundation of Pavia Prof. Maria Antonietta Crippa - Curator, Lecturer Politecnico di Milano Prof. Giorgio Azzoni - Lecturer at the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia
Moderator: Alberto Cividati - Art Direction Diocesan Museum of Brescia
For information and registration: segreteria.museo@diocesi.brescia.it
AN ARCHITECT ARTIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY: FATHER COSTANTINO RUGGERI
The Frate Sole Foundation, in collaboration with the other organisers: Archdiocese of Milan, Contemporary Churches Route, ISAL - Institute for the History of Lombardy Art, proposes un series of five meetings per theme the works and figure of Father Costantino Ruggeri swill take place according to this programme, starting from Thursday 10 December 2020 and will be held on Thursdays from 17.30 to 19.00 on zoom platform at the link:
'From matter to form' Unpublished works by Costantino ruggeri
Seventy works by Costantino Ruggeri realised at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
They are at the heart of the monographic exhibition on the artist friar proposed by thePavia City Council Culture Department in collaboration with the Brother Sun Foundation. Saturday 18 July the opening in the exhibition space at the Broletto in Pavia; the exhibition will remain and can be visited until 4 October.
The title is "From matter to form“.
The works show interesting proximities with the successful poverist current founded by the critic Germano Celant recently passed away.'Matter becomes form' marks the birth of the Arte Povera movement in 1967 baptised by the art critic himself, who characterises it with these words: "...in reducing signs to their minimum, in impoverishing them to their archetypes".
In the historic exhibition entitled 'Arte povera - Im Spazio' held at the La Bertesca Gallery in Genoa, Celant presents the artists and the theoretical foundation of the new current that stands outside the art system. The names of Fabro, Bignardi, Boetti, Kounellisto which will be added later Paladin, Merz and others.
The fledgling current is identified in these words: "First comes man, then comes the system".
"Celant speaks of a 'poor art, engaged with contingency, with the event, with the anthropological conception and with the real man," they explain at the Department of Culture. "The meeting point between the absolute of beauty and the relative of the forms in which it is indicated, represents an ever new starting point in the experience of an artist, difficult to express in words because it must be expressed in situations, essential signs, unpredictable openings, always new, in solutions as rigorous as they are free and liberal.
In this sense, the exhibition intends to valorise and promote the work of material recovery carried out by Costantino Ruggeri, a Franciscan friar but also an artist attentive to all the rupture movements that arose as a reaction to the socio-political climate of the 1970s.
Ruggeri graduated from the Brera Academy in 1962 and made friends with fellow students Roberto Crippa, Lucio Fontana, Gianni Dova, Marino Marini, Alberto Burri. Starting in 1964, Ruggeri developed a lively dialogue with matter, with walls, with spaces in relation to light. Through this research, Costantino arrives at the most humble materials: packaging cardboard, cellophane, thread, polystyrene, wooden boards that he finds in landfills and unused material deposits.
The first works from this period are the White Shapeselaborated with recycled objects that are striking for their essentiality. Followed by the Black Shapeswhich are rarer and act as a counterpoint to absolute white. But the most accomplished formulation of Costantino Ruggeri's innovative conception of sculpture can be identified with "Cells"three-dimensional works in which he uses thick cardboard by folding it into the shape of a parallelepiped, completely covered with a layer of plaster and white paint, which makes the artefact immaculate. - La Provincia Pavese, 9 July 2020 -
Pavia, Palace of Broletto, Contemporary Arts Space. 18 July to 4 October 2020.
The exhibition will be open every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Tuesday closed.
Presentation of the volume Father Costantino Ruggeri - Franciscan artist
Edited by Prof. Maria Antonietta Crippa
Pavia, Friday 6 December 2019
Broletto Palace
Fireplace Hall
5.30 p.m.
interventions by:
Don Umberto Bordoni – Christian art today Prof. Paolo Campiglio – The Art of Fr. Constantine Ruggeri Prof. Maria Teresa Mazzilli – The cultural heritage of the Church Father Father Pasquale Ghezzi – A Franciscan artist
introduced and moderated by Dr. Alessandro Beltrami
Friday 6 December at 17.30 at the Sala del Camino at the Broletto in Paviain Piazza Vittoria, the edited volume 'Father Costantino Ruggeri - Franciscan artist' will be presented, by Prof. Maria Antonietta Crippa.
With this publication the Brother Sun Foundation pays tribute to its founder, great artist figure, Franciscan friar and priest who, in over sixty years of fervent activity, has dedicated himself with commitment and passion to thecontemporary sacred art in its many facets, through artistic research characterised by the joy typical of the Franciscan spirit.
A singular artist active throughout the second half of the 20th century until the beginning of the 21st, he left a legacy - in paintings, sculptures, liturgical furniture and furnishings, stained glass windows and churches - that testifies to his modern dialogue and skilful synthesis between contributions from the artistic avant-gardes of the 20th century and iconographic and symbolic innovations anchored in the Christian tradition.
This book aims to offer an initial historicisation, to which the following chorally contributed: Giorgio Azzoni, Carlo Cavallari, Maria Antonietta Crippa, Mario Favretto, Luigi Leoni, Roberta Manara, Massimo Ravazzano, Carmen Romagnano, Chiara Rovati, Nicoletta Scherillo, Andrea Vaccari, Virtus Zallot, Ferdinando Zanzottera.
The book is published by Silvana Editoriale, with contributions from the Cariplo Foundation and the Community Foundation of the Province of Pavia; it is sponsored by the Municipality of Pavia, the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and Religious Buildings, the Province of St. Anthony of the Friars Minor, and the Diocese of Pavia; with the collaboration of the Institute for the History of Lombard Art.
Friday 6 December 2019 the Brother Sun Foundationopens at the end of the presentation of the volume 'Father Costantino Ruggeri - Franciscan artist" a exhibition of paintings and photographs by Fr. Costantino Ruggeri at its institutional headquarters on the first floor of the Broletto Palace in Pavia at 21 Via Paratici.
It will be a convivial gathering where we can exchange holy Christmas greetings.
The exhibition will be open from Monday 9 to Friday 20 December 2019, according to the following hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
SIGN LANGUAGE STENOGRAPHIES OF THE SOUL BY FR. COSTANTINO RUGGERI
La Brother Sun Foundationin collaboration with theKantharos Cultural Association, presented Thursday 4 October 2018, feast of St Francis of Assisi, at the Church of Saints James and Philip a remembrance of Father Costantino Ruggeri.
During this event, centred on the figure of Father Costantino Ruggeri, a lecture was given by Milan Polytechnic professor Maria Antonietta Crippa on epigraphic symbols and modern art in the research of the artist friar.
On the premises where the dinner was held, unpublished works by Father Costantino Ruggeri were on display.
Four finalist projects were unanimously selected by the Selection Committeefour winners who will be awarded on 4 October. ex-aequo the European Prize for Sacred Architectureorganised by the Frate Sole Foundation and awarded every two years to a Christian church project, the subject of a bachelor's, doctoral or master's thesis.
In this 7th edition women wonwith the Polish Irmina Niewczasthe Italian Lucilla Di Paolo, the group consisting of Giulia Drago, Federica Ingegno, Roberta Laera, Valentina Lazzaro, Simona L'Erario and the only male winner, Stefano Campanini, who deviates with the design for an Orthodox church.
A number of events have taken place in recent days at the Convent of Canepanova and the Borromeo College to remember the person of Father Costantino Ruggeri on the tenth anniversary of his death.
We thank those who participated including the authorities: Mayor Massimo Depaoli, Councillor Giacomo Galazzo and Provincial Father Mario Favretto.
We also thank Davide Tremolada of MTP Arredamenti for installation and promotion.
Thanks also to L'Avvenire, La Provincia Pavese and Il Ticino for their willingness to always host us in the main news.
He is the famous Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (born 1937), Pritzker Prize in 1996, the winner of the 6th International Prize for Sacred Architecture, aimed at new religious buildings of Christian worship built all over the world. His Iesu Church in San Sebastian (Spain), with its clean, compact shapes, alternating solids and voids, won over the Jury, who unanimously decided to award it first prize.
In second place was the New Church of the Parish of KaDon, in Don Duong, Lam Dong Province, in Vietnamrealised in 2014 by architects Thu Huong Thi Vu and Tuan Dung Nguyenwith simple materials such as wood and iron, which emphasise the relationship with nature and the openness of spaces to the outside world.
The new St. Trinitatis Church in the city of Leipzig (Germany) - the largest Catholic church in the former GDR - by German architectural firm Schulz und Schulz was awarded the third prize. The architects worked on the relationship with history and place, choosing a material such as porphyry, the same porous but very hard red stone from which the city's most significant monuments are built. Inspired by principles of energy sustainability, the church is equipped with a geothermal system, designed by scientists from the Technical University of Dresden.
Not only "archi-stars" then, and prizes to universally known big names in architecture, but also a commitment to highlighting the work of lesser-known professionals who are equally excellent in their work: alongside the first three winners, the Jury chose to give special recognition to two other works.
Special mentions go to to the St. John the Baptist Chapel, built from stone and wood in Berlin's Johannisthal district by the German architectural firm Brückner & Brückner, and the simple and austere Saint John Baptist Chapeldesigned, like a scalene triangle that fits perfectly into the landscape, by the Spanish architect Alejandro Beautell, in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
José Rafael Moneo Vallés, better known as Rafael Moneo, was born in 1937 in Tudela, Navarra, and studied in Madrid where he lives and works.
Director for many years of the most famous architecture school in the United States, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he has taught architecture in Barcelona, Lausanne, New York, Princeton, Harvard and Madrid, and is the only Spanish architect to have won the Pritzker Prize.
Moneo has built distinctive and recognisable architecture with clarity and precision. His buildings possess that compactness that the architect declares as the key to a new modernity that represents the future of architecture.
His works dialogue with the identity of the place, amplify and interpret it.
This is the case with major interventions such as the Kursaal Concert Hall in San Sebastián or the remarkable extension of the Prado in Madrid, which reflects Moneo's attention to such a complex, fascinating and delicate historical context - managing to fit in with a completely different intervention - in total harmony.
And it happens with smaller but symbolic interventions, such as the Murcia Town Hall, and even when it comes to hotels, such as the Hyatt in Berlin, where the architect manages to carve out a space of identity in the debated context of Potsdamer Platz.
His most important works also include: the Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, the Atocha station in Madrid, the airport in Seville, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, the Lady of Angels cathedral in Los Angeles, the Gregorio Marañón children's hospital in Madrid.
Balancing emotion and rigour, the Church of Iesu (inaugurated in 2011) is located in one of the most recent neighbourhoods of the Basque city, that of Riberas de Loiola, where the religious building, together with the adjacent Garden of Memory, constitutes a new landmark. The architecture, which Moneo himself defines as "generous in its spaces and very modest in its materials" is characterised (both externally and internally) by the abstract, minimalist white of the walls, an element that recalls the dominant colour of the flowers in the nearby park and above all the important rationalist constructions present in San Sebastián, such as the Real Club Nàutico and the "La Equitativa" building. The complex consists of three elements: the church proper, located inside a cubic volume and facing east; an 'L-shaped' body, housing several rooms including the parish centre; a wall enclosing the patio-garden located between the two buildings and filtering the transition from the open space of the street to the mystical space of the temple.
The nave of the church has a cruciform plan, carved out within a larger quadrilateral; in the spaces that complete the figure are, on the left, the sacristy and the baptistery, and, on the right, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel and the Reconciliation Chapel; the cruciform layout of the tradition is brought up to date by means of an asymmetrical design, which "reflects the tensions of today's world", according to the architect himself, and a reference to the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida and his Cross of Peace, housed in the Cathedral of San Sebastian.
A fundamental role is played by natural light which, entering the interior in different ways, manages to connote each space in a peculiar way; the zenithal illumination of the main nave stands out in particular, due to the openings in the roof which highlight its cruciform layout and immediately evoke the Gospel message and transport the faithful into a mystical dimension. Also noteworthy is the large stained glass window designed by Moneo himself and made of alabaster and glass inserts representing a cross, a sun and two moons in distinct phases.
The International Prize for Sacred Architecture is organised by the Frate Sole Foundation, and sponsored by local authorities and national ecclesiastical and cultural institutions such as the Pontifical Commission for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage of the Holy See, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities the National Council of Architects, the Order of Architects Planners and Landscape Architects of the Province of Pavia, the Diocese of Pavia, the Municipality of Pavia, the University of Pavia, the National Office for Worship Buildings, and the Lombardy Province of the Friars Minor.
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