Sculpture "Man", cast wood finish
Sculpture "Man", cast wood finish
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limited, 299 copies | numbered | signed | cast | partly hand-painted | size 9.5 x 30 x 7.5 cm (w/h/d) | weight approx. 900g
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Sculpture "Man", cast wood finish
Michael Pickl creates sculptures of entirely contemporary men and women as we might encounter them every day on the street, portraying them in moments of relaxation and happiness. No wood is too crooked for the artist not to create a human being, a very modern one at that.
"Wearing jeans and a T-shirt, the man comes towards us casually and relaxed". Polymer cast in wood finish, partly painted by hand. Limited edition 299 copies, signed and numbered. Size 9.5 x 30 x 7.5 cm (w/h/d), weight approx. 900 g.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
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About Michael Pickl
Born in 1971, sculptor
The philosopher Immanuel Kant from Königsberg, Germany, once wrote that man is carved out of such crooked wood that nothing straight can be fashioned. The sculptor Michael Pickl (born 1971) from Kastl, Germany, proves quite unmetaphorically that is not true: no wood is too crooked for him not to create a human being, a very modern one at that.
With a coarse carving iron and the finest of knives, Pickl creates sculptures of utterly contemporary men and women, such as we might encounter on the street every day, and portrays them in moments of relaxation and happiness.
With his wooden sculptures, which clearly show the traces of workmanship and yet are filigree and colourfully painted, the graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg has already been represented at numerous exhibitions, including several times at the Neue Kunstsalon in the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
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.
Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.
Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.
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.