Brake Rotor Animals Turning Junk Auto Parts Into Art
When Edouard Martinet was ten, one of his teachers introduced his pupils to insects. Subliminally, the fascination sunk in to the young French boy. Fast-frontwards 40 years, and Martinet has become the fine art world's virtuoso insectophile, transforming bits and pieces of cast-off junk culled from flea markets and machine boot sales into exquisitely executed insect, fish and animal forms.
What sets Martinet'due south work autonomously is the brilliant formal clarity of his sculptures, and their boggling elegance of articulation. His degree of virtuosity is unique: he does non solder or weld parts. His sculptures are screwed together. This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness.
Edouard lives in Brittany, France and studied design at the prestigious L'Ecole Superieure des Arts Graphiques in Paris. Martinet takes about a month to make a sculpture and will frequently piece of work on two or three pieces at the aforementioned time. It took him just 4 weeks to make his first sculpture and 17 years for his most contempo completion! His next show at the Sladmore Contemporary volition be from November 27 – January 31, 2014.
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1. Wasp
28 X 16 Ten 40h cm
Abdomen : steel tips for boots, bike headlights
Thorax and caput : steel tips and bells from bikes and typewriters
Eyes : vintage lookout case
Antennae : spectacles arms
Legs : bike brakes , bike chain , spoon handles
Wings : drinking glass
two. Fish III
three. Bird
44 X 16 X 25 H cm
Beak: autoscope
Caput : two seed scoops
Optics : ornaments for bike lights
Wings : Petrol tank plates of 40s and 50s motorcycle Monet-Goyon and Khoeler-Escoffier , bike chain guards
Tail : wheel concatenation guards
Trunk : children's tricycle fender Legs : springs , pieces of costume jewellery
4. Butterfly
63 X36 X 57 H cm
Wings : moped chain guards
Legs : bicycle brake parts , pieces of winshield wipers , bike chains
Abdomen : erstwhile acetylene low-cal tank
Thorax : car break part, minor spoon parts , foam chargers
Head : headlights, bike parts
Butterfly trunk : clock springs
Pilus : pieces of a daisy wheel
Antennae : brake cables, on the top : drawer knobs
5. Grasshopper
half-dozen. Dragonfly
95 X 125 Ten 38 H cm
Abdomen : patinated copper/brass bike pump, motorcar horn part, parts of former acetylene bicycle lights ( at the ends)
Thorax : 2 motorbike rear lights , shell-shaped drawer handles, large upholstery tacks
Caput : car or lorry old stop lights, parts of acetylene wheel lights, parts of a daisy bicycle for typewriter ( hair from the rima oris)
Legs : tubes, bike cable guide, wing nuts, wire
Wings : umbrella ribs, wire, wire netting for hen coops
7. Toad
8. Blueish and Yellow Beetle
ix. Moth
78 X 42 10 17 H cm
Wings : moped chain guards ( rusted and patinated)
Abdomen : motorbike headlights
Thorax : very old motorcar headlamp
Legs : large upholstery tacks , motorcar boot hinges, pieces of windshield wipers, cycle brake parts, chain guards
Head : quondam rear position lamps , bike parts, pieces of a daisy cycle
Butterfly trunk : clock springs
Antennae : aluminium heating resistor
x. Praying Mantis
eleven. Red Ant
65 10 42 x 22 cm
Thorax and caput : sauce spoons, car parts
Optics : marbles
Abdomen : bike or motorbike headlights
Antennae : small bicycle chains
Legs : foam chargers , brake parts , chains, alarm clock feet , spoon handles
12. Light-green Beetle
13. Falcon
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