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He designed it in 2000, published it in 2001, and created it for the parish where he was born, in Adro, in his beloved Franciacorta region.It consists of fifteen mosaics, a Stations of the Cross made exclusively of light, crafted with glass paste enamels, a…

Have you ever looked at the sky at dawn?It becomes infinite […] and in that moment of light and mystery, the stained glass window “captivates” him and introduces him naturally into the temple, like a total dimension, divine as well as human.I won’t tell you…

This man knows how to capture squares already painted by the light, colored by patient spiders, burnished by the wind, cracked by time and not by neglect, bound by ligatures and stucco, signs of memory in lit glass, airy dust scented with embers.With minimal interventions…

Spirit and matter, in the poetics of Father Costantino, appear almost inseparable: one draws value from the other, the other from the one. […]Spirit and matter, therefore, having intervened in turn “along the road” (sometimes holding hands—as in the Psalm—sometimes struggling in angelic contrast and…

One of my first paintings was a sleeping blue-and-white friar. I generally painted meadows, landscapes, animals, and convent scenes—simple, soothing themes in harmony with my character and my homeland. I had the opportunity to consult the monographs of the Impressionists and other contemporary artists, which…

Arriving at his studio, I expected to see the colorful abstractions I was familiar with, but instead I saw multiple, all-white objects. My friend then told me, very simply, that he had renounced color to achieve, with minimal means, the maximum in poetry.He said, “I…

Father Ruggeri’s research has always aimed to celebrate the intertwining of faith and art. […]It is especially in churches that that truth becomes stone, or rather, becomes a living body, because in his temple, Father Costantino brings together space, matter, light, humanity, and mystery in…

Family cenacles, the “Domus Christianae,” are the phenomenon that developed and gave ecclesial and social form to early Christianity and its early centuries. I believe that a man must possess the “eyes of a dove” to see the stirrings of God. Because beauty, beyond being…

Beyond any aesthetic intent, the proposal of these CELLS—intended as the “ancient heart” of the most transparent and courageous “future”—invites us to rediscover the first garden, Eden, at the dawn of the world.A space that is mystical rather than sacred; not organic, but image, light,…

It can be said that the graphic translation of models and ideas for chasubles and vestments provided the artist’s sensibility, nature, and poetics with a unique tool, a field of inquiry always open to the sovereign freedom of mind and hand, to the joy of…

By his own happy choice, and because the Canepanova Convent is located there, Costantino Ruggeri draws, paints, and pastes. […] For thirty years, an experimental artist one rarely encounters, sheltered from fashion, inoculated against fame, he has drawn as only a brilliant eclectic can, involving…