Main artist

Lukas Mayr | *1994 in Bozen / Bozen, lives in Brixen / Bressanone

Ever since he was a child, round, spherical forms have held a magical attraction for Lukas Mayr – for him the most effective form in nature, from the raindrop in free fall to the soap bubble. He came to art in 2017 through a telepathy course: a trained heating and plumbing technician, he felt a desire for more, attended personal-development seminars and, from 2018, trained for three years as a wood sculptor at the Provincial Vocational School for Artistic Craftsmanship in Val Gardena. He immerses himself in “Sacred Geometry”. His works are meant to transmit positive energy and to raise questions in which people find hope. “You become what you do” – he lives and works by this sentence, both as an artist and as initiator of the Triennale Klausen. Lukas was a committee member of Unika, the Gröden sculptors' association, for five years, and is a member of the Südtiroler Künstlerbund. Since 2021, he has exhibited actively at home and abroad. Several times a week, he accompanies a young woman with a disability at night – encounters from which, as he says, he learns a great deal.

“Philosopher's Stone”
A boulder of Eisack Valley granite, which lay underground at Vahrn for millennia, comes to light. Lukas Mayr recovered it and set it up in the middle of Fragen square – mighty and round, on a bed of smaller stones; its top is gilded and shimmers in the light. For Lukas, the stone is more than material: the connection between the human being and something higher. The first tools were made of stone, the pyramids and Stonehenge of solid rock – wherever people wanted to create something lasting, they reached for stone. 'Mass is energy', he says; for him, weight is the soul of a work – something one does not see, but feels. The title alludes to Paulo Coelho's “The Alchemist”, in which the philosopher's stone stands for transformation and for the insight that true wisdom arises only through personal growth. And so the work asks everyone who pauses before it: what are you building? What is your microculture?

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