Caricature "The Playboy", cast hand-painted
Caricature "The Playboy", cast hand-painted
Quick info
cast | handmade and -painted | numbered | signed | size 21 x 43 x 23 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 2 kg
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Caricature "The Playboy", cast hand-painted
An ageing playboy with a young blonde beauty on board. With a special eye for detail, Guillermo Forchino, originally from Argentina and now living in Paris, creates masterful scenes full of humour and irony, making him one of France's most popular cartoonists.
Hand-crafted sculpture made from porcelain-like resin casting. Hand-painted, signed and individually numbered. Size 21 x 43 x 23 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 2 kg.
About Guillermo Forchino
The artist Guillermo Forchino (born in 1952 in Rosario, Argentina) is one of the most famous cartoonists in France. He lives and works in Paris.
In the early 1980s, he started experimenting with various materials to create his works of art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rosario, Argentina, trying to find the right shape for his three-dimensional art. His studies continued at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He learned how to work with old-fashioned and classic materials such as wax, resin, glue and traditional compounds.
With these experiences on methods learned at the Sorbonne University, he returned to Rosario where he began to make representational sculptures made from wrapped bands of cloth. For the visible parts, he used delicately natural coloured paper mâché. In the late 1980s, Forchino started using polyresins for his figurines that resemble the world of comic strips.
The mixture of Forchino's great sense of humour, combined with a strong touch of irony, have led to Forchino's comic art. A series of ironic and unusual scenes such as overloaded old cars ready for holiday departure with flat tires, aeroplanes, motorbikes, military dictators in motorised bathtubs, a mixture of comic personalities and his series of ironic two-dimensional tableaux depicting the absurdity of the modern world.
The artist has regular exhibitions in France, Argentina and the Netherlands.
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 the substitute stone in powder form is used instead of marble powder.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Special polishing and patination techniques give the surface of the casting an appearance similar to the 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.