Giovanni Balderi

"A certain reference is the body - says the artist - always the voice of a need to tell human and divine paths, where feeling shows itself in eternal works, like questions. Mine wants to be a body that is silent, that stands aside, lets the soul speak, the energy that inhabits it, dominates it, makes it live, gives it form, expression, everything that distinguishes the dialogue of life in its mysterious paths?"

What characterizes his work is the immediate impact with the mineral, as if to establish a dialogic comparison with it from which the will to feel the marble transpires, to listen to and express its voice, and so through continuous changes of the work in its making, as if inspired and stimulated by the material itself to make ex - abrupto changes, to extract emotions from within, from the heart of the rock block and of the human being, one as a mirror of the other.

His love for marble, "which in the immediacy of the work shows its physicality, to be followed, respected and sometimes challenged", does not linger, however, in descriptive preciosities, his desire to establish an empathic contact does not lean towards virtuosic complacency, on the contrary an affective bond is generated, a harmonious fusion such as to be able to perceive the very sensuality of the material - body. Sometimes the latter almost takes on the appearance of female nudity, with hints that refer to the velvety softness of human skin alternating with completely rough parts, deliberately sectioned, carved, left free by the artist, like a laying bare of the self, of moods, suggestions, states of mind, but also of energy, of the primordial strength that are reflected in the material from which the substance is drawn, gradually removing its wrapping, to reach the most intimate essence.