The artist, born in Munich in 1989 to Austrian parents, now lives and works in Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland. While still an art student, Ballaty traveled to Naxos to acquire his first stone of Naxos marble. Since then, the material has accompanied him throughout his artistic practice. Double curved surfaces, the organic design of the material, and Goethean-Steinerian ideas such as polarity and intensification, or metamorphosis, are central themes of his work.
Early on, the internationally renowned Würth Collection took notice of the artist, who was then working in Salzburg, and acquired all of his available works. To this day, the collection has continued to secure some of his most significant pieces.
With LYRA, his many years of work on large-scale sculptures, his own formal language, and a relationship with Naxos marble that has grown over decades come together in a single work.
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Tobias ballaty
