Light, slender, fluctuating, sinuous, rippled, soft, hieratic, diaphanous, the artworks of Giuliano Giuliani conquer the beating heart of ancient Rome, the Forum. Created in travertine, the main stone used in Roman architecture and the stone of the city from which the artist comes, Ascoli Piceno, his sculptures take shape and feeling in the Colle San Marco quarry, capturing the essence and evoking the charm of the sweet suspended Marche landscape between the sea and the blue mountains.
Immersed in the ruins, they bring to life the intuition of a pure time, out of history, in the overwhelming comparison of the immanent and partial images of contingency, in a lyrical, spiritual, luminous transfiguration of the absolute. Ancient and contemporary thus merge in a mythical space, where the past becomes differently intelligible in the dialectic it establishes with the present.

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The gentle forms of the Marche landscapes in Armonie di pietra of Giuliano Giuliani
Daniela Tisi

Stone paths
Daniele Fortuna

Of flesh, spirit and nature
Carlo Bachetti Doria

Giuliano Giuliani: the fluid travertine
Stefano Papetti

La mia storia è scolpita nel travertino
di Antonio Gnoli

For Giuliano Giuliani
Mario Botta

Giuliani at the Roman Forum
Claudio Strinati

Intermittences of the centre
Roberto Cresti

Giuliano Giuliani, or the absolute weight of form
Alessandro Masi

“On the white stone”.
Giuliano Giuliani, epiphany of the absolute
Nunzio Giustozzi

A moulded liquid
Antonello Tolve

Giuliano Giuliani, the promise of matter
Gabriella Grande

Philosophy of excavation: between the physical and the metaphysical
Flavia Orsati

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