Interview: Stone Carver Massimiliano Pelletti On the Virtue of Imperfection

Silver cave, 2023, travertine silver. Edition 1/1. Photo by Nicola Gnesi.

Madina Tulakova Massimiliano Pelletti

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The following is our full interview with Massimiliano Pelletti from Issue 1.

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MADINA TULAKOVA: Your work embraces the natural imperfections of stone. Flaws, cracks, and raw textures become integral to the final piece. How do you approach these elements as part of your artistic language?

MASSIMILIANO PELLETTI: What appear to be imperfections in the material are stimulating elements for me because it becomes a kind of challenge in being able to transform them into virtues in the final work. I transform adversities into opportunities; More than that, these cavities often contain crystals which, in my opinion, offer not an absence, but a presence.

I like to bring my passions into the work, and one of them is definitely geology. I really love the geological history of matter—there are already stories within it—and that is why I choose onyx, sodalite or fossil stones. And I’m always looking for materials...

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