Video: The second life of automotive parts: metal sculptures by Tom Samui
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everyone knows that cats have 9 lives. And the horses, or rather the iron horses? Unrepairable motorcycles and old landfill vehicles can also be reborn. Thanks to the sculptor Tom Samui, animals, people and fabulous creatures are created from car parts. The process is laborious and slow: you need to work on one sculpture without interruption for 400 hours, that is, about two and a half weeks!
Swiss sculptor Tom Samui and his assistants are frequent guests at the local car dump. The graveyard of dead cars supplies them with materials for work once a month. Here the sculptor stocks up on car parts, which then have to be sorted and cleaned. Over the 10 years that Tom Samui and his team have been creating strange art, a clear work algorithm has been formed.
When nothing can be added to the art objects made of car parts, the author polishes them and treats them with an anti-corrosion agent. Metal sculptures turn out to be quite impressive: their sizes usually range from 1 to 8 meters.
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