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On the relationship between artist and stone, Rupnik said: “When we cut a stone, we must hear it, we must be tuned in it, avoiding to go down with force and imposing our will. An artwork is borning from a dialogue in which the artist collaborates with matter in a mutual help bringing out to light the deepest meaning. Imposing our will makes a bad service to art and deceives us in life. In the mosaic, the spaces between the figures should be treated with equal attention and creative force as the figures themselves. The figures are like words, they are such as speeches. The spaces role is creating the right condition by which we can take up these words. The eye glides over the stones colors and movements; so we may hear a beauty echo in the soul. And only the beauty – because love is realized – is capable to create the right attitude to listen and understand. “

Father Marko Ivan Rupnik is a Slovenian Jesuit (born November 28, 1954), based in Rome, whose mosaics adorn churches at Fatima and Lourdes, in Madrid, Rome or Milan, in Cluj-Napoca Romania as well as the Pope’s private chapel in Vatican.The website for the Centro Aletti displays him and his workshop`s works in abundance

An extension of 50 square meters. Almost 20 thousand colored stones and glasses tiles. These numbers summarized an extraordinary artwork: the mosaic that Slovenian artist Marko Rupnik has created on the walls of the chapel of Suore Adoratrici at the Spirituality Center in Lenno ( Lake Como, Italy)

Cappella delle Suore Adoratrici del SS. Sacramento a Lenno

Cappella delle Suore Adoratrici del SS. Sacramento a Lenno

Moses is saved from the waters of the Nile

Moses is saved from the waters of the Nile

The work was completed in five days during June 2007. Marko Rupnik lead a 11 persons team from different nationalities, formed and supported by competent people who deal with theological, symbolic, historical, iconographic and artistic point of view about the images to create. The harmony we admire in the mosaic is also the result of the fraternity that artists lived together, respecting single diversity and identity. While each artist composed his mosaic’s part, silence prevailed. Each artist has to dialogue with the stones. And the stones answer, obey and communicate with heart’s artist.

Roberto Alborghetti

Marko Rupnik says: “The world is understood only in light. Things, objects, nature and man himself are only understood in the light. According to the Creator and His Wisdom, the truth is the light of the world and all that exists. But man cannot look at the light. It would be too much! The source of light is behind and beyond. Here are the colors. The experience of light is the colors festival!”

Chiesa Madonna della Via, Caltagirone, Aprile 2011

Cristo Risorto con Maria Maddalena

Risen Christ with Mary Magdalene (details)

The angel shows the empty tomb

The Good Shepherd

Gethsemane

Capiago is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km north of Milan and about 6 km southeast of Como

This chapel, built in February 2006, is included in the "House of Christian Encounters" Capiago, run by Dehonian Fathers, whose spirituality is inspired by the Sacred Heart, a symbol of the love of the Father in search of man

The anointing at Bethany

The Annunciation

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Roma Chapel of All The Saints of Ireland

On each of the four sides of the altar there is a cross with an enameled angel inserted into the corner.

Roma Cappella delle Suore Ospedaliere del Sacro Cuore di Gesù

Roma Cappella del Centro Aletti

Benedict XVI blesses the icon of the Holy Family (60 Kg; 115 X 130 cm)

The official icon donated by S. Father to the Diocese of Milan for the World Meeting of Families

Sound: Divna Ljubojevic

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