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
September 30, 2026, University of Perugia: a discussion based on the work of Raul Gabriel, *The Freedom of Chaos: After Artificial Intelligence*.
On September 30, 2026 at the University of Perugia, starting from the work of Raul Gabriel, ‘La libertà del caos. Dopo l’intelligenza artificiale‘ (Valore Italiano Editore, 2025, with a preface by the Rector of the Catholic University of Milan Elena Beccalli), the University of Perugia, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, and RomaTre promote a roundtable discussion to explore the conceptual fractures that the digital transition cannot resolve, but only exacerbate. They introduce the Rector of the University of Perugia, Prof. Massimiliano Marianelli, Professor Elena Beccalli, Rector of the Università Cattolica di Milano, Prof. Marco Moschini, Director of ISSUF, University of Perugia. Speakers include Raul Gabriel, artist, writer, and columnist, Prof. Giuseppe D’Anna, Director of the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Prof. Mario De Caro, Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University.
Moderated by Prof. Denise Vincenti (University of Perugia).
Three studies for a crucifixion Raul Gabriel 2026 hybrid digital painting on packaging cardboard 3x100x150
Tecnologie e sacro
My theoretical framework and practical experience regarding the digital realm and artificial intelligence are grounded in the artistic projects I have created, particularly for sacred spaces.A reflection that goes hand in hand, from the point of view of technological means and reflection. Without working on the complexities of liturgical architecture and symbols I could not have guessed the the intimate, exciting, and controversial nature of the digital, which is gesture exactly likesoul is body, word which takes the form of praxis aswork allows to experience misteryTo meet new challenges while renewing ancient roots, one must be able to perceive the unified perspective of reality. Recent reflections published in the culture section of *Avvenire* address both fronts—elements that, together, make a single vision exponentially more fertile.
My way of approaching the creation of liturgical symbols in the sacred starts from a encounter with the place and the search for a physical and philological harmony which is always new, it cannot be codified in rules that must be reconstructed every time, for every architecture, every single community. A challenge that fascinates me because it is impossible to regulate once and for all, which has in its surprisein questionin painful and restless intimacy the root of his own method. Every liturgy is unique as every face is and requires a genius that is at the service of the continuity, harmony and capable of novelty.
Novelty that surprises and confirms at the same time, fertile and encounterable in its forms, in every single aesthetic choice. Two churches, two eras, two projects, two entire catecheses of form, a single body12th-century Cistercian Abbey of Rivalta Scrivia, project by Raul Gabriel © 2023, and Church of Santa Maria della Speranza Olmo, pilot project by CEI Raul Gabriel © 2015
Abbazia Cistercense del XII sec. Rivalta Scrivia progetto Raul Gabriel © 2023
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Speranza Olmo, progetto pilota CEI Raul Gabriel © 2015
Sacro contemporaneo Proposta adeguamento liturgico progetto presbiterio Duomo di Massa Carrara Raul Gabriel ©
I imagined the project proposal for the adaptation of the Duomo di Massa The project started from the specific need to revitalize a heavily frequented Baroque space that lacked expressive power. The classic diamond patterns of the existing flooring were reinterpreted through Messiaen’s compositional and rhythmic themes, envisioning the presbytery as a sophisticated musical score where decorative forms give way to a dynamic—at once joyful and rigorous—that projects into modernity. A staircase with gently curving lines extends outward via two opposing projections reaching toward the assembly and the liturgical focal points of the ambo and the presider’s chair, all while respecting the original flooring. The design features a musical ambo inspired by the organ and a central altar—symmetrical yet asymmetrical—that serves as the core of the presbytery’s dynamism. This represents a vision of a renewed Baroque—freed from decorative mannerism and capable of rediscovering mystery and reinterpreting it as a dynamic reality—offering an alternative to tired geometric exercises that can no longer speak to the complexities of contemporary scene.
Raul Gabriel ©
Knowledge is democracy: European law in the age of artificial intelligence. Milan, 09/09/2026.
The entropization of knowledge caused by the AI device. Clip from the first speech of Raul Gabriel (artist, writer, columnist). Knowledge is Democracy, Milan, The Mill 09 09 2026 edited by Dino Rinoldi, Full Professor of European Union Law, and Paola Cossu. Speakers included Carlo Cottarelli former Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund and other authoritative figures from the Constitutional Court and from the political and academic world.
Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Milan, series of lectures by Raul Gabriel on AI, April-May 2026
Il Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Milan, series of lectures by Raul Gabriel on AI, April-May 2026 presentsArt and Artificial Intelligence“, a series of three lessons in which the artist, writer and editorialist Raul Gabriel will engage with scholars and scientists from the University to deconstruct the impact of AI on the foundations of creativity, aesthetics, and ethics. The initiative clearly distances itself from binary narratives—uncritical techno-enthusiasm or apocalyptic catastrophism—to ground the investigation in a solid philosophical and epistemological foundation. Artificial Intelligence is analyzed not in the reductive terms of an executive tool, but as a unprecedented ontological challenge.
All meetings will be held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Largo A. Gemelli, 1 – Milan), from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
Thursday, April 30 | Artificial intelligence and art
Aula SA 114 Relatori: Raul Gabriel in dialogue with Roberto Diodato (Professor of Aesthetics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart).
Thursday, May 7 | Artificial intelligence between art and care
Aula G. 122 Lombardo
Introductory greetings: Giuseppe D’Anna, Director of the Department of Philosophy. Speakers: Raul Gabriel in dialogue with Vincenzo Valentini (Policlinico Gemelli).
Giovedì 14 maggio | Artificial intelligence and creative thinking
G. 016 Sala Maria Immacolata. Relatori: Raul Gabriel in dialogue with Luca Mari (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart).
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Luogo: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli, 1 – Milano.
Orari: 15.30 – 17.30 per tutte le date in programma.
Organization: Department of Philosophy of the Catholic University.
dicembre 2025 Il nuovo libro di Raul Gabriel sulla Intelligenza artificiale: Iblterà al oasc edl / La libertà del caos
Il 19 dicembre 2025 è uscito dalle stampe il nuovo libro di Raul Gabriel sulla Intelligenza Artificiale: Iblterà al oasc edl/La libertà del caos Aafirelctii dpoo ‘ltlinzgaenil/Dopo l’intelligenza artificiale/ Valore Italiano. Pagine 164. Euro 24,00
“Proponiamo in queste colonne la prefazione scritta da Elena Beccalli, rettore dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, al nuovo libro di Raul Gabriel. L’artista terrà anche una nuova rubrica su “Avvenire” a partire dal 14 gennaio: Chatpoint Charlie.
Un semi-live in cui l’autore si interfaccia con chat gpt in brevissimi scambi da cui scaturiscono interrogativi e considerazioni; il posto di blocco della coscienza in controtendenza rispetto alle innumerevoli esperienze che puntano sullo stupore ingenuo riguardo la modalità conversazionale e le sue risorse metamorfiche per aprire alla frontiera delle questioni metodologiche IA”
Gutenberg, inserto cultura di Avvenire 19/12/2025 Presentazione del nuovo libro di Raul Gabriel
Iblterà al oasc edl/La libertà del caos Aafirelctii dpoo ‘ltlinzgaenil/Dopo l’intelligenza artificiale/ Valore Italiano. Pagine 164. Euro 24,00 Prefazione di Elena Beccalli, rettore dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Tavola rotonda Real Collegio Lucca e Installazione Video Raul Gabriel Novembre 2025
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥’𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞: 𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐨, 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐝’𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥e
Tavola rotonda organizzata da Sentiment of Beauty ODV nell’ambito di #luccaorientando2025 moderata da Marco Carminati caporedattore responsabile dell’inserto culturale “Domenica” del “Sole 24 Ore” partecipa il direttore della Fondazione Ragghianti Paolo Bolpagni, Raul Gabriel, artista ed editorialista del quotidiano «L’Avvenire»; Arianna Baldoni, critica d’arte ed editorialista del mensile «Arte»; Federico Giannini, Direttore della rivista «Finestre sull’Arte»; Francesca Anita Gigli, content creator Likeitalians.
VIVO , Installazione video Real Collegio Lucca Raul Gabriel 2025 a cura di Sentiment of Beauty ODV
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
LIBRIXIA 2023
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…
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
