Making a sculpture ...from A to Z Part 2

From the silicon mould to the patina - all the stages of making a bronze at the foundry

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hans
• sculpture
• bronze
• art
• fineart
• paris

[sisypha]

For those wishing to learn more, certain details about bronze casting and assembling the cast pieces of a sculpture can be found in the video clip "Templier" - a monumental sculpture I made a year or two ago here near Paris. Sorry - the documentary adresses a french audience, but the images speak for themselves.

[clayguy1]

Sounds are the same though...

[sisypha]

The men who work in this foundry can still cast bronze as it was once done...in a mixture of clay and horse-dung! They "know" their jobs - plus the history behind them, and I'm proud to have them work on my pieces if this means quality. You're so right ... some sounds always remain a constant...I'm glad you liked it.

[jkwjd234]

thank you

[sisypha]

My pleasure...There's a wish to share with would-be sculptors at the basis..but also an attempt to explain to the novice why a bronze costs "so much".

[clayguy1]

I could see that your foundry guys were immensely knowledgeable. I've never come in contact with people that knowledgeable in my experience with foundries. It was a window into the past that I've never seen.

I sometimes wonder what the sounds and sights would have been like in a 3,000 year old foundry. I held a sword that was produced over 3,500 years ago. I tried to visualize how they produced it. Foundry work is still a magical experience. The pouring of bronze, unworldly.

[clayguy1]

Method so different than how I get mine into bronze. Fasinating

[sisypha]

Glad to have been instructive - or at the least entertaining.