People who work every day with precious metals measure themselves against the earth; its crystals and minerals; fire which shapes the amorphous metals; water that cools the results; and air which oxidises the surfaces, changing their colours.
It is to nature – perfect even in its imperfections – that M. Balderi looks.
He finds there inexhaustible inspiration and stimuli, which he brings to every artistic experience in his varied personal voyage whether he is in Italy or abroad:  first shipyards, then terracotta, then – from 1986 onward – jewellery.
But more than anything else, it is in Pietrasanta, where the air is saturated with art and expression means communication, that this craftsman branches out into art with curiosity and a spirit of adventure. No longer a goldsmith - more an alchemist of personal feelings - which, when brought out, come to life in a wax model, a metal casting and then emerge fully formed into a piece of jewellery of intensely and inexplicably profound mystique.