Black Palissandro marble, 41.5 cm × 33 cm × 19 cm.
Mattia Bosco's process is profoundly different to that found in traditional sculpture, in which the sculptor starts off with a block of stone from which he removes surplus material. In contrast, Bosco's intervention is simple, confined and restricted, and aims only to draw out and purify the form already present in the stone. He says: “It is not a case of man on one side and the world on the other, […] the relationship between me, who is sculpting, and the material itself, is a tussle between two parts of the world, engaging in a show of force."