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Nel cuore del Forte di Gavi, antico baluardo incastonato tra le colline piemontesi, le vecchie celle militari hanno accolto per un’estate silenziosa il respiro di una montagna lontana: il Monte Corchia.
Uomini di Pietra, racconto fotografico dedicato ai cavatori toscani, uomini che vivono in simbiosi con la roccia, eredi di un mestiere che è sangue, famiglia e rituale. I loro gesti scolpiscono il paesaggio, seguono il ritmo delle stagioni e affondano nelle vene della Versilia, là dove la polvere di marmo è un’eredità collettiva. Gli scatti si impegnano a restituire la potenza del loro silenzio e la grazia della loro fatica. La montagna diventa un corpo che respira: è avvolta dalle nuvole, lambita dall'acqua, tagliata dalla luce. Ogni immagine è un frammento di quell’intimità fra uomo e natura, che ancora resiste. In dialogo con la fotografia, all'interno della cappella del Forte, l’artista Raffaele Salvoldi ha realizzato una monumentale installazione in marmo di Carrara, costruita interamente con materiali di recupero grazie alla collaborazione con Salvatori. La sua installazione, Architetture dell’Effimero, riflette sulla fragilità della bellezza e sulla responsabilità di custodirla: una struttura che pare eterna ma destinata, come ogni cosa viva, a trasformarsi. 
A suggellare l’inaugurazione, il 15 giugno 2025, la musicista e compositrice Beatrice Busto ha presentato "Stones", una colonna sonora che ha tessuto un paesaggio onirico che ha avvolto le immagini e la pietra in un respiro comune.
STONES è stato un invito a rallentare, ad ascoltare la materia, ad attraversare il tempo. A sostare dentro la bellezza. 
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In the heart of the Forte di Gavi, an ancient stronghold nestled among the Piedmont hills, the old military cells welcomed—for one quiet summer—the breath of a distant mountain: Monte Corchia.
Men of Stone is a photographic narrative dedicated to the Tuscan quarrymen, men who live in symbiosis with the rock, heirs to a craft that is blood, family, and ritual. Their gestures carve the landscape, follow the rhythm of the seasons, and run deep through the veins of Versilia, where marble dust is a shared legacy.
Each photograph seeks to capture the power of their silence and the grace of their labor. The mountain becomes a breathing body: cloaked in clouds, brushed by water, carved by light. Every image is a fragment of the enduring intimacy between man and nature.
In dialogue with the photographs, within the chapel of the Fortress, artist Raffaele Salvoldi created a monumental installation in Carrara marble, built entirely from reclaimed materials through a collaboration with Salvatori. His work, Architectures of the Ephemeral, reflects on the fragility of beauty and the responsibility to preserve it: a structure that appears eternal yet is destined—like all living things—to transform.
To mark the opening, on June 15th, 2025, composer and guitarist Beatrice Busto presented "Stones", an original soundtrack that wove a soundscape enveloping both the images and the stone in a shared breath.
STONES was an invitation to slow down, to listen to the material, to cross time. To linger inside beauty.
Men of Stone is a photographic narrative dedicated to the Tuscan quarrymen, men who live in symbiosis with the rock, heirs to a craft that is blood, family, and ritual. Their gestures carve the landscape, follow the rhythm of the seasons, and run deep through the veins of Versilia, where marble dust is a shared legacy.
Each photograph seeks to capture the power of their silence and the grace of their labor. The mountain becomes a breathing body: cloaked in clouds, brushed by water, carved by light. Every image is a fragment of the enduring intimacy between man and nature.
In dialogue with the photographs, within the chapel of the Fortress, artist Raffaele Salvoldi created a monumental installation in Carrara marble, built entirely from reclaimed materials through a collaboration with Salvatori. His work, Architectures of the Ephemeral, reflects on the fragility of beauty and the responsibility to preserve it: a structure that appears eternal yet is destined—like all living things—to transform.
To mark the opening, on June 15th, 2025, composer and guitarist Beatrice Busto presented "Stones", an original soundtrack that wove a soundscape enveloping both the images and the stone in a shared breath.
STONES was an invitation to slow down, to listen to the material, to cross time. To linger inside beauty.
