Carlo Chenis (1954-2010) places the reflection on art and beauty at the heart of their theoretical commitment. In search of the proprium of artistic language, find the truth of the work of art in its authenticity, or in its completeness ontological. The work of art is requested first of all as an entity and then as an artifact, with strong ontological content; the work is then interrogated as word, speech, meaning the transformation of matter, meaningless expression, openness to the infinite, in an epistemological path so deep as to involve the whole philosophy, and in which the contemporary sensibility, prompted by phenomenology and hermeneutics, is the theoretical expression of the plant Thomistic thickness.
In an original way, Chenis wondering with method of philosophy also the sacred art works in an effort to understand it within the horizon of the ontological and anthropological where they manage all human phenomena, without reducing the thickness of the sacred, indeed preparing harmonious opening toward knowledge for Faith.
The systematic study of the multifaceted thought Chenis is an opportunity for a philosophical reflection on some current issues are still open, and at the same time, the postmodern liquidity is an interesting challenge to verify the relevance of chenisiana proposal in the beauty finds its strength .