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W4727
26.05.2011
Household aluminium foil sculptures - Michel NORTH
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Household aluminium foil sculptures – development of a “fa presto” technique in sculpture Those are two examples of statues (image 1: 1978; image 2: 1985), unrealised in that sense that the technique used and developed by me about 50 years ago ...

Household aluminium foil sculptures – development of a “fa presto” technique in sculpture

Those are two examples of statues (image 1: 1978; image 2: 1985), unrealised in that sense that the technique used and developed by me about 50 years ago still doesn’t allow to make the objects “usable”, that is to be handled, transported, exhibited as you like. The technique allows me to make quick (10 to 15 min.) 3 dimensional “sketches”, as near as possible to my first and profound feeling, much better than any current sculpture technique like clay, plaster or wax for instance. It corresponds to pencil, wash drawing, charcoal, water colour, etc, in painting. But unlike those 2 dimensional “fa presto” techniques, no satisfactory fixing technique has been found so far; researches are still going on. Most of the hundreds of made “sketches” have been destroyed, or, at best, photographed, like those two ones.

Household aluminium foil sculptures – development of a “fa presto” technique in sculpture Those are two examples of statues (image 1: 1978; image 2: 1985), unrealised in that sense that the technique used and developed by me about 50 years ago ...

Household aluminium foil sculptures – development of a “fa presto” technique in sculpture

Those are two examples of statues (image 1: 1978; image 2: 1985), unrealised in that sense that the technique used and developed by me about 50 years ago still doesn’t allow to make the objects “usable”, that is to be handled, transported, exhibited as you like. The technique allows me to make quick (10 to 15 min.) 3 dimensional “sketches”, as near as possible to my first and profound feeling, much better than any current sculpture technique like clay, plaster or wax for instance. It corresponds to pencil, wash drawing, charcoal, water colour, etc, in painting. But unlike those 2 dimensional “fa presto” techniques, no satisfactory fixing technique has been found so far; researches are still going on. Most of the hundreds of made “sketches” have been destroyed, or, at best, photographed, like those two ones.