Christian Bolt (eng)
Christian Bolt
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| Artist | Christian Bolt |
| Hometown | Klosters (CH) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Website | www.bolt.ch |
Lasa marble, the famous Italian marble, still plays a significant role in 21st century sculpting, as evidenced by the monumental sculpture "The nature of things" by internationally renowned Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt.
A resident of Klosters (Grisons, Switzerland), Bolt, who was born in 1972 in Uster (Canton of Zurich) and holds a professorship at the renowned Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, appreciates Lasa marble in particular for its homogeneity, resistance and unique internal luminosity. He was commissioned by Lasa Marmo in 2017 to create the monumental sculpture "The nature of things". Featuring an expressive yet classic-figurative language of shape, the powerfully designed male figurine rises from roughly hewn stone. The organic transition from rough rock to the increasingly detailed figure represents both the origin of the stone, which itself is the product of a metamorphic process that has achieved its current geophysical structure over the course of millennia spent under enormous pressure.
