Contemporary Silver - Thalen & Thalen
Mega Bowls
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Brochure over het Mega Bowl Project - 2010, 16 p. |
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"After a long search we found a way to create fine silver 999/1000 objects on a very large scale. The starting point for this project is a large 15 kilo sheet of fine silver with dimensions of one square meter and a thickness of 1.5 mm... With this as a base we will create a number of large and high bowls, for which we find inspiration in two very different directions. First, there are influences of Roman amphoras and secondly, they refer to wide open landscapes, eroded and attacked by the sun and wind .. From the flat silver sheet, we design, raise and "pull" the object into the final result. A process that takes many hundreds of thousands hammer blows from our highly polished hammers. During this process, the silver plate needs to be annealed and cooled many times to make the silver pliable again." Lees meer... |
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