Vitro Nasu

Name this artist.

Choose an answer from the list below.

A) Vik Muniz - skullpture

B) Diamond Heist

C) Nicola Bolla

Born in 1963 in Saluzzo and the son of a painter, the artist currently lives and works in Torino. A practicing opthamologist and eye surgeon, Bolla lives a kind of double life, practicing medicine by day and working in his studio after hours, creating objects of tremendous beauty and peculiar contradiction. (The description from a dated source)

Vanitas (Stampelle) the crutch and more Vanitas by Bolla from Speronwestwater site.

He creates art out of Swarovski crytals. “I make sculptures like a jeweler makes jewelry.” One of his latest works - jail door, stoole and noose made from crystals - was described as “an imaginary suicide in a jail for fashion victims”. (via)

I think Damien took inspiration from Nicola Bolla and his Skull too. (A comment from “My old friend Damien stole my skull idea)“

(image source)

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