Light and Matter
Working with marble and stone has always been conditioned by light. Sometimes the stonecutter chose a smooth surface, at other times a scuffed and grooved surface in order to obtain specific light and shadow effects.
I designed the “Light and Matter” exhibit to highlight optical characteristics of two particular, extremely different, even antithetical marbles: Merbes Esprimont’s Black marble from Belgium and Solubema’s light-hued Vigaria marble.
The former is quarried in Belgium from an ancient underground mine, the latter comes from Portugal from an open-air site (…)
Raffaello Galiotto