As the Vatican builds bridges and walls between the Church and the living contemporary artists, one man notices the importance's of an alliance and tries to mend the differences.
The new president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi, plans to revive that sort of relationship between the Vatican and contemporary artists. “For a century now there has been a divorce between art and faith,” states Ravasi. “The basic idea is to return to a dialogue on biblical and religious themes between the Church and the great artists of our time—artists such as Bill Viola, Anish Kapoor, and Jannis Kounellis.”
Just like centuries before many artist expressed themselves with the a sense of faith in their art work. For example, Leonardo De Vinci created the last supper and a magnificent way for that the generation now can picture it. But now, society and the Church is missing out in many beautiful and faithful paintings.
Another major way in which contemporary art is making its presence felt in the Roman Catholic Church is through architecture. Catholic churches have recently been built by such renowned architects as Renzo Piano of Italy, Richard Meier of the United States, and Tadao Ando of Japan, and celebrated by parishioners as well as architecture critics. The Church structure is a form of art and the architects have great pride in capturing the purity of their buildings.
Pope John Paul II affirmed the enduring importance of art’s role in the Church in 1999 when he opened a special exhibition in the Vatican’s modern-art collection space. Lauding contributions by famous artists. The Pope believes their paintings, writings, and music “opened the spirit to the mysterious fascination of the Transcendental, because in every authentic artistic expression there is present a mysterious and surprising spark of the Divine.”
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