Mattia Bosco was born in Italy in 1976. After completing his studies in philosophy, he settled in an old artist’s workshop in Milan and focused on ceramics, the only material he was familiar with at that time. Bosco, whose father is a painter and mother is an art restorer, started his art journey when he was a teenager in development. His studies in the field of philosophy made an important contribution to his personal development in artistic creativity and aesthetics. Clay and stone are mostly prominent in the works of the artist. The artist says that clay is a material that allows every movement and is open to manipulation, and states that working with clay is not only easy in appearance, but also causes mistakes more easily. Influenced by the resistance of the stone in his works that responds to every stroke of the sculptor, Bosco sees it as a part of the whole with its unique nature, beyond being a material.
Believing that stone is a material that allows initiating a dialogue with the artist, Bosco observed that when he started to examine it closely, it was a potential sculpture and always tended to a certain form. Thinking that the sculptor started the formation process by finding the form in the material, stone sculptures soon took the place of ceramics in the works of Bosco. Trying to create a synthesis between form and concept, the artist bonds these combinations in a balanced and harmonious way, giving life to unique, abstract stone sculptures. Saying that each stone is a part of the world with its veins, the artist invites people to look only at the stone and to get rid of the superstructures that prevent us from seeing the stone.
