Nicola Bolla was born in 1963 in Saluzzo, Cuneo.
Already at a young age, he was fascinated by the idea of building and started creating his own toys demonstrating incredible manual skills. This talent first brought him to painting and then to specialize in sculptural production. A practicing opthamologist and eye surgeon, Nicola Bolla lives a kind of double life, practicing medicine by day and working after hours in his studio, creating objects of extraordinary beauty and peculiar contradiction.
His work is a kind of parallel reconstruction of reality: the artist creates objects inspired by the natural world, a kind of "mirabilia-naturalia" but "artificially" made using unusual materials such as Swarovski crystals - which are a sort of "trademark" for him. By desecrating reality, Bolla’s work emphasizes the sense of transcience of wealth and the uselessness of luxury. The use of light is functional to this vision: the specific weight of the objects is cancelled thanks to the crystal-clear brightness on the works' surfaces leading to the idea of "non-sculpture". Nicola Bolla attended the Venice Biennale both in 1995 and in 2009.
The artist currently lives and works in Torino.
