Carrara – spațiul în care prin sculptură se depășesc limitele diversității lingvistice și culturale
Carrara – the space where linguistic and cultural differences are being surpassed through sculpture

Summary/Abstract: We have chosen a meaningful title for our research, because we would like to show that art is a meansof communication with no linguistic and cultural barriers.Working in Carrara allows the artist to interact with Italian culture and especially with the art of extracting and processing marble, both famous since antiquity. We also witness in Carrara how a bridge between cultures is being created, as next to local artisans and artists, we find sculptors from all around the world. Chinese, Koreans, Americans, French, Syrians, Romanians, all come here in search of those moments of authentic inspiration and, through sculpted marble forms, which were until not long ago brought to life only with chisel and hammer, perfect their art, so that, by assimilating the local culture, they eventually can be integrated in turn in it. In spite of bringing to Carrara a vast array of ideas, voices and artistic expressions from all geographical latitudes, we paradoxically reach here a syncretic message, conveyed through the universal language of visual art, in our case, through sculpture. Cultural diversity implies promoting an intercultural dialogue, so that this can become a source of mutual enrichment and be able to facilitate the understanding and acceptance of cultural and linguistic differences. In the Apuan space, the artists foster the themes of tolerance, reconciliation and peace, with consideration towards the value of everyone’s identity and diversity. Thus they end up creating a virtual Tower of Babel, where the multitude of languages does not represent, as in the Biblical story, the end, but the beginning of any human enterprise. Because the language of art is not limited by words, spoken, in our case, by the locals of Carrara, it is able to become a means of communication for all, redefining the respect given to a different language or culture. The inherent conclusion of our endeavour is that Italian sculpture, famous throughout the world, especially due to the works in Carrara marble of Michelangelo, receive a strong anthropological and cultural dimension and determine our ability to evaluate the specific cultural aspects of urban places and spaces, where people have lived and worked stone for the last two thousand years.

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