The sculptor’s hand gently caresses the stone’s golden wound, a gesture that holds within it thought, utopia, and revelation. There is always a moment, when standing before Mattia Bosco’s sculptures, in which time seems to stop. It is almost a whisper from the stone itself, revealing its voice and asking to be heard. Mattia Bosco (Milan, 1976, lives and works between Milan and Val d’Ossola) is among the most compelling voices in contemporary Italian sculpture. As in all his works, also in the piece featured on our cover, part of the *Corriere Art Collection*, available from Tuesday in a special edition with QR Code, the artist stages a dialogue between matter and form, between chaos and geometry, between opacity and brilliance. It is as if Mattia Bosco sought to unveil from the raw stone the hidden heart of matter, its purest and most essential soul, made radiant by layers of gold leaf: a sacred light that seeps into darkness, a wound that returns light. The sculpture thus becomes a conversation between man and rock, between geological and human time. And so gold becomes both symbol and threshold, the threshold of a truth waiting to be set free. Gianluigi Colin Courtesy of the artist / WIZARD / Atipografia / Fumagalli Photo (of the artwork): David Bertschinger-Karg