Sculpture pieced from metal

Korean artist and sculptor Chan girl Park is the creator behind metal sculptures that feature either the use of metal sheet slices or the humble nuts and bolts. The artist constructs meticulous metal sculptures from thin metal sheets arranged in layers, to finally convey a finished while using three dimensional topography charts. After piecing the layers together he fuses each piece with a bendable cover that allows for the movement and shaping of each sculpture.

Park Chan-girl received his BFA in Sculpture from Chungnam National University and his MFA in Fine Arts from KyungHee University. His older, but equally distinct pieces, are assembled by a myriad of metal nuts put together, in airy forms, that shine and glimmer under the light. Though heavy by design, his sculpture is elegant and dreamy, although he does not deviate from already familiar forms.

The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok’s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. His solo exhibition ‘Dystopia’ took place at the INSA/Arko Art Centre in Seoul from 26 October 2011 until 31 October 2011 and showed his nude sculptures made meticulously in welded metal chain links piece by piece. Seo Young Deok presented a number of nude sculptures, some lying on the ground, some hung on the walls. He used welded metal chains in order to model them linking them piece-by-piece.

At first glance, when someone takes a look at his work, one cannot help but notice that the artist draws strong references from the work of the renowned British sculptor Anthony Gormley. Gormley is known for using the human figure at the core of his work who on numerous occasions used his own figure to create metal casts making his body the artwork itself.

Tomohiro Inaba’s sculptures are a culmination of a twisted jumble of steel wire that creates an effect that closely resembles violent scratches. His art starts off as an ordinary steel sculpture of an animal before it slowly starts to come apart and to become nothing more than scribbles. The artist pulls the thread of his steel beasts until they are nothing more than a small jumble. Tomohiro Inaba displays the nature of life through these decomposing works of art.

Dale Dunning look meticulously arranges a variety of different metal pieces in order to create a generic model of a face which appears to be caught in the midst of dreaming or on the verge of waking up. Dale Dunning's sculptures are composed of various items, some are made up of moveable type faces while others are made out of welded nuts and bolts. The subject of the models is always the same.

Sculptor Manuel Martí Moreno lives and works in Valencia, Spain and forms these wonderful figurative pieces out of iron nuts. Moreno says that he is most interested in showing the passage of time, the transience of life, and our collective awareness of our own mortality, seemingly evidenced by the spectre of decay at the edges of his works.