WE CAN SHAPE MATERIALS THE WAY WE LIKE, BUT DO WE HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY?
WHAT IS THE QUANTIC INTERACTION BETWEEN OUR CELLS AND THE ENVIRONMENT?
THE SHARING OF THE WISDOM OUT OF THE EXPERIENCE, THE EDUCATION AND THE DIALOGUE WITH THE MATERIALS IS THE AIM HERE.
YES A DIALOGUE, STONES HAVE WITNESSED ALL SORTS OF CHANGES, AND A FEW OF US CAN HEAR SOME OF THEM WHISPERING MESSAGES...AS IF THEY ACCUMULATED WISDOM WHILE SITTING OUT THERE. For AN EXAMPLE OF DIALOGUE WITH A STONE , read THE poem "the stone".
NATURE AND ITS ELEMENTS, BE IT A STONE OR A PIGMENT, IMPACT ON OUR LIVES MORE THAN WE KNOW BECAUSE OF THE CONSTANT INTERACTION AT CELLULAR LEVEL THAT ESCAPES OUR LIVES. IT'S NOT JUST MADNESS.
TRUE TO HIS WORDS, PASQUALE NEVER FORCES A SHAPE, HE WORK WITH THE EDGES OF THE STONE, NEVER USING PNEUMATIC CHISEL OR COPYING FROM A CAST, EVEN IF THAT MEANS TAKING YEARS TO ESTABLISHED A CORRECT DIALOGUE WITH THE STONE, AND OFTEN IT DOES. IT IS A WAY TO honour OUR PLANET, OUR DNA, THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS WE ALL SHARE and the wisdom within THEM.
PASQUALE CALLS HIS ART "UNIVERSAL ART", ART THAT DELIVERS UNIVERSAL MESSAGES.
IT IS MORE THAN A DECADE THAT PASQUALE MAKES PROFESSIONAL ART, COLLABORATES WITH GALLERIES IN LONDON AND IN PIETRASANTA, ITALY. BUT HE WAN'T EDUCATED TO BECOME AN ARTIST. HE HAD A PASSION FOR HISTORY OF ART, EVEN WORKED AT WEEKENDS AS A MUSEUM GUIDE AT THE BRERA GALLERY IN MILAN WHILE HE WAS A UNIVERSITY STUDENT. HE COLLECTED MINERALS AND STONES, AND ENTERED CHURCHES ONLY TO TOUCH ALTARS AND COLUMNS. HE WAS ALWYS CREATIVE AS EVERYONE AROUND HIM WILL TELL YOU. BUT HE WAS PREPARED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER, CUM LAUDE, LSE MASTER AND ALL, AND FOR A FEW YEARS HE DID, IN THE CITY OF LONDON. YET, WHEN HE FIRST TRIED A CHISEL ON A STONE, OUT OF CURIOSITY, SOMETHING SHIFTED INSIDE HIM AND FORMED A CONNECTION WITH SOMETHING DEEPER THAN ALL ACHIEVEMENTS HE HAD HAD. HE STARTED A ONE WAY JOURNEY TO EMBRACE AND SHARE HIS ART.