Sculpture "Joining Forces for Success", bronze with cast stone
Sculpture "Joining Forces for Success", bronze with cast stone
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bronze + cast stone | polished | size 19.5 x 15 x 6 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 2.7 kg
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Sculpture "Joining Forces for Success", bronze with cast stone
Kerstin Stark wants to convey messages of everyday life with her sculptures. They are symbolically simple and familiar to everyone - and offer plenty of room for personal interpretation. The goldsmith contrasts precious materials in an accomplished manner.
Table sculpture made of finely polished bronze on a cast stone base. Size 19.5 x 15 x 6 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 2.7 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
Customer reviews
danke es gibt nichts zu meckern
Sehr schöne Skulptur. Schnelle Lieferung und sehr freundliches Personal bei Rückfragen
Wunderschöne Kunst, ist schon das 2 Kunstwerk der Künstlerin in unserem Besitz.
About Kerstin Stark
1971-2017
Messages of everyday life that are lovingly put in a nutshell. The trained goldsmith Kerstin Stark used targeted contrasts to give her table sculptures a special expressiveness.
Her figurines, sculptures and jewellery objects are ideal gifts for special occasions. They are bearers of tender messages, stimulus and motivation for special life situations.
An alloy of copper with other metals (especially with tin) used since ancient times. It is an ideal metal for high-quality artistic castings, capable of enduring for millennia.
When casting bronze, the artist usually applies the lost-wax technique which is dating back more than 5000 years. This is the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
First, the artist forms a model of their work. This model is embedded in a liquid silicone rubber mass. Once the material has solidified, the model is cut out, leaving a negative mould. Liquid wax is then poured into the negative mould. After cooling down, the wax cast is removed from the mould, provided with sprues and dipped into ceramic mass. The ceramic mass is hardened in a kiln, where the wax melts away (lost mould).
Finally, the negative mould is ready, into which the 1400° C hot molten bronze is poured. After the bronze had cooled down, the ceramic shell is broken apart, reavoling the sculpture.
Next, the sprues are removed, the surfaces are polished, patinated and numbered by the artist or by a specialist, following their instructions. Thus, each casting is an original work.
For lower-quality bronze castings, the sand casting method is often used, which, however, does not achieve the results of a more elaborate lost-wax technique in terms of surface characteristics and quality.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.