INTERVIEW

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marble from other countries as well.

I have experimented with different

granites but found them more

restrictive compared to the artistic

freedom provided by marble.

You are based in Norway and

Tuscany: how those two identities

get along in sculpting your

identity as an artist

All the traveling required can be tiring

but apart from that I f ind working in

two different places quite stimulating

Not much marble sculpture is being

made in Norway, not much f igurative

sculpture either, so working within the

rich artistic tradition of Pietrasanta has

profoundly inf luenced and shaped my

artistic development. And of course;

Italy's rich art history allows for easy

access to masterpieces and valuable

lessons from the masters of the past.

About your artistic process many

of your works refers to classic and

neoclassic art like statues of human

f igures What inspires you and who

are your maestros among the

great sculptors of the past