Anton Alvarez creates 12 "creature-like" objects from extruded bronze
Swedish-Chilean designer Anton Alvarez has brought the lost-wax casting technique into the modern age to create a series of 12 extruded bronze objects inspired by the Renaissance.
The 12 objects were featured in an exhibition curated by gallerist Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte as part of this year's Milan design week, where they were positioned across the floor of a 15th-century Catholic church.
Called L'Ultima Cera in Italian, which translates as "The Last Wax", the exhibition is a play on both the idea of lost-wax casting, and Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century painting The Last Supper.
"The artistic practise of Alvarez is difficult to define," said the curator. "Sitting between functional object and sculpture, his work oscillates between expression and constraint, advancing technological innovation and using traditional craftsmanship. In his objects the primordial and the futuristic meet."
The sculptures are made by pushing wax through an extrusion machine that Alvarez built himself, called The Extruder, comprised of a large metal cylinder that hangs from the ceiling by chains.
Bellavance-Lecompte describes the contraption as being "like a big pasta machine".
The Extruder uses an electric motor to exert more than six thousand pounds of pressure on the wax as it pushes it through different moulds to create an array of fluted shapes.
Underneath the machine is a pool of cold water which the extruded wax flows into. Alvarez guides the wa...
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