Ancient civilizations themselves used stones fallen from space to erect sacred monuments. Not far from Thun’s “enclosure”, one comes across other strange stones, half-hidden by the vegetation: black rocks resembling meteorites, arranged randomly at the edge of the forest. “Erosions”, the work by Italian artist Quayola, intervenes on lava stones with erosions generated by an algorithm and carved by a special machine.
The work is inspired by the millennia-old Eastern tradition of scholar’s rocks: natural stones chiselled by human hand and transformed into objects of contemplation and aesthetic veneration. Ancient knowledge, Eastern wisdom, self-discovery and spirituality thus form a dense narrative weave of references, recurring among the various works.
