Pier Francesco Mele

I was born in Dorgali, a village in the heart of Sardinia, where stone is not just a material — it is the landscape itself.
For over 40 years, I have worked marble and iron by hand, without molds or machinery, learning to listen before I carve. My sculptures take shape through a dialogue between my hands and the block: I do not impose a form, I find it.
My work is rooted in abstraction and geometry — clean volumes, sharp tensions, surfaces that invite touch as much as sight. Each piece emerges from a single block, unique and unrepeatable. I do not produce series. I do not make copies. Every sculpture exists once.
Marble carries the memory of the earth. Iron carries the memory of fire. Working both means holding two opposing forces in a single form — weight and lightness, roughness and precision, the ancient and the contemporary.
One of his works is held in a private collection in Italy.
My work is represented internationally by my son Daniele.