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Literature and art are two forms of human expression. Both arise from the human need to communicate emotions, ideas and worldviews with different languages. They are worlds capable of provoking reflection, expressing the time in which they were born and addressing universal themes.
Their connection is a bridge between sensory and intellectual worlds, allowing us to have intense emotional experiences and interpret reality in surprising ways. Sometimes they are ways to find clues and solutions to our complex society, which not even our legislators can achieve.

Last Friday evening, Galleria Frilli presented the book “The Wall” written by author and friend Giuseppe Delle Vergini.
It is a small book, just over 100 pages. But despite being small, it is dense with meaning.
What is narrated in this novel is the story of a conflict, between Israel and Palestine, with two protagonists: a young Arab student who plays the flute and a mature Israeli woman who offers to be his teacher.
It is a story of divisions that arise from misunderstanding and often also from symbols such as walls, created “artfully”. But that is a different, evil art, erected by power to create fear, to antagonise people, to control them.
In this context of ours, on the other hand, art becomes a magical, incredible, powerful point of encounter and at the same time of breaking down many barriers and prejudices.

Be it visual art, literary art, or why not, the one described in “The Wall”: the art of music as a possibility of redemption, as a bridge between people. Music as peacemaking art.

There’s a quiet brilliance in the way marble can imitate fabric. Sculptors transform stone into flowing folds, capturing the softness and movement of drapery with astonishing precision. It’s a subtle but profound virtuosity—making the heaviest material appear weightless, fluid, alive.
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It was an absolute pleasure being part of Villa Héritage at Salone del Mobile.Milano, we were honored to be chosen among the 50 best brands in craftsmanship and Italian decor throughout the world. It was delightful to work with Pierre-Yves Rochon, a moment of appreciation for art in all its different forms that we surely hope to replicate in the future.

Rich textures and stunning settings complement Frilli Gallery's artworks chosen for the Villa Héritage booth at Salone del Mobile, at Pavillion 13 - B18-C23.
An installation that affirms the importance of time and experience, with an idea of the interiors inspired by tradition, but reinterpreting it through a contemporary sensibility, thus enhancing the legacy of the past and projecting it into the future.

For the bathing area Architect Rochon has chosen to make a tribute to femininity and to maternity in one of the most intimate environments where a woman indulges to rest and to prepare her beauty. For this white setting the Venus with cymbals after Canova stands with all her pure sensuality.

A great honor for us to be present at Villa Héritage booth by Pierre-Yves Rochon at Salone del Mobile.Milano with the 50 best renowned brands in Italian craftsmanship.
Villa Héritage is a space where design becomes a shared and timeless language, capable of bringing together all arts and prompting reflection on the idea of transmission.
Enjoy the vision of our bronzes and marbles: sensual Venuses from ancient to contemporary times, beautiful Graces and powerful Torsos immersed in the magic setting of Pierre-Yves Rochon's design.
We look forward to meeting you at Pavillion 13 - B18-C23.

Just as the wind that arrives and shakes the coasts and ruffles the seas and trees, so on a winter day Mistraline, allegory of the wind, arrived at the Frilli Gallery.

This beautiful elongated woman represents the prophecy of that disruptive current which, when it arrives, announces its important, impactful presence that does not go unnoticed.

The white Carrara marble sculpture Mistraline by artist Emmanuel Fillion is now part of the contemporary collection of the Frilli Gallery.

Fillion is an artist who comes from a long tradition of apprenticeship in sculpture which in France dates back to the medieval period of the great cathedrals: the legendary Companions, the stonecutters, builders of Gothic cathedrals.
His fourteenth generation identifies him as the direct grandson of the master Jean Cousin, painter of the French Renaissance, author of "Eve before Pandora" (currently exhibited at the Louvre) and his birth, in Soissons in 1966, saw him grow professionally in an area rich in history and stone sculptures.
His beginnings saw him sculpting at the young age of 15, as an apprentice, renovating prestigious historical monuments in France including: Notre Dame, Chateau de Chambord, The Louvre, La Sainte Chappelle in Vincennes, the cathedrals of Amiens, Sens, Beauvais , Rouen, Bourges, Moulins, Blois to name a few…

In 1994, Fillion moved to California: a journey that allowed him to create sculptures in marble, bronze, terracotta, paintings with the tromp-l'oeil technique, as well as portraits.
In 1997 he opened a studio in Malibu, where he began creating works for the most significant residences of American architectural heritage: the Fleur de Lys estate, Beverly Hills: Evershine, Los Altos, Arrowhead Lake Chateau and other works in Texas, Tennessee, Nevada, Oklahoma and Georgia.

Fillion's sculptures can also be found in private collections in the UK, France, Italy, Greece and the glittering United Arab Emirates.
In 2002 he appears in an educational documentary funded by Annenberg called “Through the Eyes of the Sculptor”, where he explains all the processes involved in creating a sculpture and virtually brings the viewer here to Pietrasanta, where Emmanuel has a studio.