r/Sculpture

my first attempt at sculpture. Still a work in progress. Made from 316 Stainless steel, its roughly 2200mm high, 2000mm from hand to hand and weighs about 170kgs. End result should be a mirror finish. Hoping to get accepted in local event 'Sculptures by the Sea"

Raccoon bust made completely out of white and red clay with a little black glaze for the nose, lips, and eyes.

I'd like to invite you to our Iron Pour in Lamberton, Minnesota on September 11-12.

It will be the 22th annual city festival centered around the Saturday Afternoon Pour and the historic Hanzlik Blacksmith Shop. There will be Blacksmiths demonstrations through out the day Friday and Saturday. Visiting Smiths are also encouraged to bring a portable forge and set up onsite if they wish. There will be sand mold shops running both Friday and Saturday as well. We welcome everyone from artists pouring museum quality pieces to children to the farmer making pieces to restore their tractor.

We encourage anyone to participated in the pour and can provide all the necessary safety equipment if you wish to try your hand at pouring.

In addition to the pour there will be a craft market, sand volleyball and various food vendors, an antique tractor/car show, and blacksmithing demonstrations.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have and I hope to see you there.

Here is a link to the Facebook event.

Not quite finished but decided to take a bit of a break on this piece to work on another. Last year of undergrad, trying to figure out my senior show.

In the process of finishing this. It was originally sculpted in wax but this is a plaster I poured from the mould I made. There's quite a lot of air bubbles in the noses and eyes so just filling those and then I think I'll paint it a more uniform white. In the process of pouring a concrete base for it as well.

I love this sculpture and would love to see all the bronze casts that were made after his death. The only issue is I'm having a hard time finding a list of all the location. From my research there's maybe 27 (or 28) cast. I know some of them are most likely in private collections but that doesn't mean I can't see the ones that are public. Here's my list so far, looking for help.

12 in by 8 in. Sculpted from Cos Clay, crown was made from worbla. I made the pillow too.

this is really hard. any critiques?

https://www.instagram.com/burning__fingers?igsh=NHhkNXRzM3Q1aWY1

I love creating fantasy creatures, and this is one of my works—the Ancient Glacier Beast.
I really enjoy the whole process of bringing a piece to life from nothing, and I’ve also documented the entire making process.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions about my piece or future ideas, feel free to let me know!✨

My father is Jiři Kočica, a sculptor in Slovenia. This is from his show Matrica: skrito, which means Matrix: Hidden, at Galerija Mulec in Ljubljana this year.

There are 100 of them, cast in concrete from a few different moulds, so they are alike without being identical. Two metres of gold thread is cast inside one. The other 99 have two metres of bronze. The thread goes in before the pour, so nothing shows on the outside and nobody knows which one got the gold, him included.

The catalogue puts it next to Duchamp's Monte Carlo Bond, art made as a wager. The bit I keep coming back to is that you could own one for the rest of your life and never find out what is inside it without destroying it.

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thanks for the response, i didn’t expect this many people to care. the interpretations in the comments have been awesome to read which is part of why i’m adding this. It’s a great feeling that my father’s exhibition is reaching so many people. some corrections and a bit i left out.

the 99 threads are copper, not bronze. and the thread isn’t just thread, it’s wound into a double helix. two metres of it, which is about the length of the DNA coiled up inside a single one of our cells. every cast is a family group, so what’s buried in the concrete is a gene.

that’s where George Price comes in. he was the population geneticist who worked out the equation for altruism, the maths of why family sacrifices for family. the pricing is named after him too, my father calls it a Price performance. opening night a piece was 250 eur, then 500 for the rest of the show, 1000 after it closed.

the gold is 25 grams, worth well over what anyone paid, and everyone knew that walking in. still a one in a hundred shot, so breaking yours is a bad bet even at 250.

i think the wire is the same diameter in all of them, so the copper ones weigh less than half what the gold one does. It would be hard to make any conclusions by weighing them, because the statues by default don’t weigh exactly the same. a few people asked about detection. a metal detector will probably tell you there’s metal in there and not much else.

a lot of them are in different homes now, spread around, and nobody in any of those houses knows.

By: @danielidle