Garden Sculpture "Venera Nera", cast
Garden Sculpture "Venera Nera", cast
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 199 copies | numbered | signed | cast + shell limestone | size 123 x 55 cm (l/h) | weight approx. 80 kg
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Garden Sculpture "Venera Nera", cast
The sensual body of the black Venus presents itself with intricate perspectives and axes. Her beautiful body forms a soaring diagonal. The dynamic compositions of the renowned Milanese sculptor are never just shapes, instead, they are always captivating with their expressiveness, agile liveliness and spontaneous directness: the Venus of the virtuoso master will magically attract everyone's gaze. It is no coincidence that art lovers pilgrimage to his works and collectors are constantly fascinated by the gripping power of this art. La Venere Nera deserves to be the highlight of a garden design because every angle of view and every new incidence of light reveal an unexplored aspect of the energetically charged corpus.
ars mundi Exclusive Edition, cast by hand. Limited world edition 199 copies, numbered and signed. Length 123 cm, height including shell limestone pedestal 55 cm. Weight approx. 80 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Costanzo Mongini
1918-1981
From his earliest youth, the sculptor and painter Costanzo Mongini, born in Milan in 1918, confidently steered his artistic steps away from the art academies. For him, they seemed to be merely places of exaggerated self-expression. Mongini wanted to preserve his own approach to art and went his way as an autodidact.
Without fumbling experimentation, Mongini grasped what corresponded to his nature: the creation of a volcano-like explosive moment charged with symbolic content, based on the study of the great art of the past and the precise observation of nature. "What calls itself avant-garde today does not interest me," the sculptor freely admitted. Success proved him right: his triumphant bronze church portal in Portofino has become a Mecca for art lovers from all over the world.
Mongini does not see his sculptures as static, but as exalted and intensely provocative. The statue of Cardinal Ottaviani is in the Vatican's private collection.
Exhibitions held in cities like Beirut and Munich brought Mongini worldwide fame. He is especially known and loved by collectors in Italy, Germany, England, Australia, the USA and Japan. The artist died in 1981.
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Collective term for the painters and sculptors of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and others, whose works are now considered iconic artworks of our times.
Collective term for all casting processes that ars mundi carries out with the help of specialised art foundries.
Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.
Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour, and surface structure.
Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.