The Atelier
Ulderigo
Ulderigo Giannoni arrived in Pietrasanta at a time when the town was a town of sculptors — hundreds of workshops, the sound of chisels in every street. He learned the way everyone learned then: by watching, by failing, by spending years on the parts of a sculpture no one would ever notice. Sixty years later, his hands still know what marble allows and what it refuses.
Alberto
Alberto grew up watching his father work. When his generation left Pietrasanta — for other cities, other careers — he stayed. Today he is one of the few sculptors his age still carving in the town that once shaped his family’s life. He brought a few new tools into the studio. He never brought a new philosophy.
What Passes Between Them
“What passes from Ulderigo to Alberto is not a business. It’s a way of looking at a block of marble before the first cut is made — and knowing, somehow, what it will become.”
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