Italy, 1981
Filippo Canesi is an Italian sculptor trained in Carrara who lives in Prato with his wife and three children, working as a professor and artist. Rooted in spiritual and alchemical exploration, his practice treats stone carving as a ritual of consciousness. By fracturing raw marble and embedding pure gold leaf, Canesi captures the tension between earthly gravity and solar light, turning primordial matter into sacred relics of contemporary abstract form.