Genesis

There is no beginning, there is no end — there is only the artist’s instinct, inspired by what he sees and what he feels in a given moment… in a given place. 

He waited for the call, gathering his strength until it burst forth at the moment when form pushed his hands beyond the material. He played with it in an exchange of roles — he and the stone, accomplices and rivals at the same time. A place where fingers draw events. 

The title Genesis immediately evokes the idea of beginning, with profound philosophical, cosmic and human implications. 

The term refers to the creation of the universe, to the emergence of form from primordial chaos, to the transition from shapeless matter to meaningful structure. 

Stone — eternal and ancient — becomes here a symbol of primordial power: the element from which everything originates. 

The sculpture appears to capture the instant in which form emerges from raw material — an energy that activates, organises and defines itself. The carved surfaces, the different planes and the internal tensions of the form suggest movement, the vital force that shapes and transforms. 

It is not a stable, completed block, but a form in the process of becoming, as if it were being born before our eyes.

In this sense, the work speaks not only of the “beginning” of the world, but also of beginnings within ourselves: the act of giving meaning, of composing order from chaos, of articulating identity through symbolic forms and relationships. 

Genesis thus becomes a metaphor for the power to shape oneself and for the creative act itself. 

— Piera Sgiarovello

Giuliano Giussani was born in Fara d’Adda, in the province of Bergamo, where he completed his studies and graduated from the Accademia Carrara. 

Sculpture soon became his preferred expressive language for conveying his artistic vision. Since 1980 he has exhibited in numerous Italian and European cities, later extending his activity to Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, South Korea and Egypt.