Mattia Bosco
Mattia Bosco expresses sculpture through the birth of an act of encounter. An encounter between man and matter, between intuition and geology, between the moment and immemorial times.
Bosco has never ceased to think of matter as a partner in dialogue, a living and meaningful entity. His approach to sculpture runs counter to gestures of domination or technical mastery. He does not seek to subjugate the stone to form, but to listen to it, to allow it to express what it already contains.
Bosco approaches each block as a world unto itself. He chooses his materials for their singularities: a crack, a hue, a particular density. The stone—Carrara marble, granite, serpentine, porphyry, basalt—carries within it a geological memory, an almost cosmic duration. Contrary to an extractive or decorative vision, he treats the material with an almost sacred respect, as an organism endowed with memory, language, and its own breath.
Mattia Bosco sculpts less than he reveals. Born in Milan in 1976, he studied philosophy before devoting himself entirely to sculpture. He approaches the material not as a medium to be shaped according to a preconceived idea, but as a living, autonomous entity with which he enters into dialogue. For him, stone is never neutral. It is already inhabited, imbued with history, geological memory and silent energy.
His practice is based on a deep respect for the material, patiently listening to what it carries within it. Unlike the classical approach to sculpture, which imposes a form on the material, Mattia Bosco adapts to what he discovers, guided by the veins, breaks and irregularities of the raw stone. He likes to say that he does not sculpt stone, but with it.
