Cistercian Abbey new project
sacro contemporaneo progetto Rivalta Scrivia © Raul Gabriel photo courtesy Luigi Bloise Sacro contemporaneo Nuovo progetto Abbazia cistercense XII sec In stretta collaborazione con la Sovrintendenza e i Beni culturali
Shistory. Echo of a humanity incapable of opposing tribal logic, the law of the strongest. Surviving, at all costs, dignity traded for inverted monuments of promises, memories, useless 'never agains.' BacktoBerlin, video trilogy. Raul Gabriel
Raul Gabriel has been an author and editorialist for several years for the culture pages of Avvenire, Paradoxaforum, the university publisher Vita e Pensiero, and recently Osservatore Romano specialized magazines. He published the book "Il Gesto Digitale" with Vita e Pensiero for the Pagine Prime series. This page collects some of his contributions on Artificial Intelligence.
The prelude given by Raul Gabriel to the first plenary session dedicated to Artificial Intelligence by the Vatican Dicastery for Culture was published in its entirety in issue 1/2025 of the University Journal Vita e Pensiero.
The artist and theoretician Raul Gabriel On May 16, 2025, he delivered an intense and visionary lecture on the role of artificial intelligence in contemporary medicine on the occasion of the 70th National Congress of Radiology at the Palacongressi in Padua. “(…) The internal debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence is also important, an essential tool that must be governed so as not to be governed by it. A lecture by Raul Gabriel, an Italian-Argentine artist and one of the leading AI experts, is particularly evocative in this regard: "In the new world that will complement the known one to the point of at least partially taking control of it in a hybrid management with unpredictable consequences, we must acknowledge a simplification that levels the cognitive process to the horizontal plane of mechanical interactions: if it happens, then it exists for the sole reason that it happens. The process of adaptation to this new paradigm will be such and so pervasive as to lead us to suspect that if it happens, it not only exists. If it happens, then it is (…)”
The artist and theoretician Raul Gabriel held in November 2024 the Prelude to the first Plenary Assembly of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, presided over by Cardinal José Tolentino de MendonçaSpeakers include architect Carlo Ratti, curator of the 2025 Architecture Biennale, Professor Elena Beccalli, rector of the Catholic University of Milan, Professor Isabel Capeloa Gil, rector of the Catholic University of Portugal, Monsignor Pagazzi, archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, Monsignor Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Department of Culture, and SJ Antonio Spadaro.
TAPELAND, Raul Gabriel curated by Paolo Bolpagni, Michetti Museum 26 07 2023 - 06 10 2023
Presentation of the Rivalta Scrivia Abbey 12th century project by Raul Gabriel ©
In the presence of H.E. Monsignor Vittorio Francesco Viola, Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, and of H.E. Monsignor Guido Marini, Bishop of Tortona and the Superintendency of Alessandria has been held a conference to present the project Raul Gabriel © recently created for the 12th century Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Rivalta. The project was the result of an intense and productive dialogue with the Superintendence, the cultural heritage of Tortona, the communities and historians. Photo courtesy Luigi Bloise
NEWS LIBRIXIA 2023
Librixia 2023 Book Fair, in the Salone Vanvitelliano of Palazzo Loggia in Brescia, the artist Raul Gabriel will present his book 'The digital gesture'
Sacred and contemporary, a unique event
In the dialogue between sacred and contemporary a unique event. Talent, history, art in an incredible place. Sistine Chapel 06/23/2023, Pope Meet the artists. Among the 150 guests from all over the world and from all artistic disciplines: Anselm Kiefer, Jean Nouvel, Anish Kapoor, Andres Serrano, Thomas Saraceno, Mario Botta, Rem Koolhaas, André Rieu, Joana Vasconcelos, Doris Salcedo a Ken Loach, Michele De Lucchi Mimmo Paladino Raul Gabriel, Nicola Samorì, Andrea Mastrovito, Stefano Arienti, Caetano Veloso, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Valerie Perrin, Amelie Nothomb, Colum McCann, Ferzan Ozpetek, Abel Ferrara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Javier Cercas Nicolò Ammaniti, Roberto Andò, Alessandro Baricco, Marco Bellocchio, Gianrico Carofiglio, Paolo Cognetti, Simone Cristicchi, Alessandro Zaccuri, Giuseppe Lupo, Luca Doninelli, Ludovico Einaudi, Giovanni Sollima, Mariangela Gualtieri, Alessandro Haber, Emilio Isgrò, Nicola Lagioia, Vivian Lamarque, Luciano Ligabue, Mario Martone, Arnoldo Mondadori, Michela Murgia, Mogol, Alice Rohrwacher, Sergio Rubini, Roberto Saviano, Igiaba Scego, Susanna Tamaro, Sandro Veronesi…
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Il Gesto Digitale
Il Gesto Digitale Raul Gabriel Edizioni Vita e Pensiero in collaborazione con il quotidiano Avvenire collana ‘Pagine Prime’ Dal primo computer comprato «senza entusiasmo» vent’anni fa per sbrigare la posta
SILKOCOONS
SILKOCOONS Silkocoons, La Sapienza Roma / Shangai Expo 2010 La Via della Seta rappresenta un tratto ricorrente della storia del genere umano: relazioni e connessioni tra differenti nazioni e società.
ROSA ALCHEMICO Villa Olmo, Como16 ottobre 2022 – 8 gennaio 2023
Raul Gabriel parteciperà su invito con un’opera dedicata a ROSA ALCHEMICO nel corso di MINIARTEXTIL, rassegna annuale d’arte contemporanea, capace di proporre la migliore produzione artistica internazionale nell’ambito della Textile
Contemporary sacred
Sacro e contemporaneo, il corpo unico Non vi è una forma dell’arte contemporanea privilegiata a significare il sacro e non vi è una forma del sacro eletta al primato della
Altar Olmo Raul Gabriel
Sacro contemporaneo Altare contemporaneo di Raul Gabriel per Olmo l’altare per la chiesa di Olmo è una sintesi formale e sostanziale della chiesa filtrata attraverso le mie chiavi di
The Glorious nothing
la Fondazione Rivoli2 di Milano ospiterà il progetto di Raul Gabriel “The Glorious Nothing” (prologue) con cui l’artista presenta il suo concetto di libertà, ovvero il suo apparente contrario: il
LUCEBUIO Raul Gabriel
LUCEBUIO (…) Qui, attraverso una sorta di antipittura (le tele sono frutto di colate controllate di vernice) Raul Gabriel dà vita a una superficie lucida fitta di meandri e radure,
genesis code
Genesis Code Raul Gabriel © Genesis Code is a ‘digital test-tube’ that contains groups of primary forms and a quantity of sound objects created by the artist. It contains also
The Glorious Nothing
“Quando tocca terra la neve si sporca. E rimane pura. Puro e sporco, irrilevante ed essenziale. Il nostro corpo, i corpo dell’arte, il corpo del mondo. Il corpo della nostra esistenza.”
” Touchin’ ground, snow gets dirty. Yet, pure. Pure, dirty, irrelevant, essential. Our body, body of art, body of the world. Whole body of existence”
Raul Gabriel