Steel and Color: animal sculptures of steel and copper, naturalistic works, plastics and objects

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Work exhibition Steel & Color

Henning Block & Sylvia Aevermann

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Animal sculptures

Naturalistic works. Unicorns, horses, birds, bats, dolphin's, Pterosauria, dinosaur and butterflies.

Photo installation of unicorns and horses in the garden.

Photo installation of unicorns and horses in the garden.

In the mythology the unicorn is often associated as a symbol for the fight of the light with the darkness. In many cultures of the earth the horse with the mighty horn stands on the forehead, strongest, most unstoppable all animal creatures, symbolically for an apparently irrepressible challenge. We have to do the challenge, naturalistic plants, accepted.

So conduced the horse form in the "change process" as the basis for the development of the running horse on skids.

This horse shape conduced in the change process as the basis for racehorse on skids.

The racing horse was developed by Henning in about 200-hour working hours.

From the minne poetry it is reported about the unicorn: Only if it sees a pure virgin, it becomes tame and lies down.

With some plants, like the racing horse on skids, the working process about different stages of development applies. Every step for himself, would be worth basically already of the preservation. However, where no destruction, there also no fresh start. If one it with one Seminal grain collates whose death and departure allows only new life.
A such change process also has the small one, standing horse form experienced.

From this model there incurred the small, jumping unicorn. Produced from sheet steel and conductors welded to a hollow body and with atmospheric pressure modeled, polished as well as weld-surfaced.

The horses also even today her place in the company have, we see alone in the fact that we describe our transport vehicle still in horse power.

Beside the technique Converting we also work with other smiths and production procedures.
Possibly to the air pressure modelling procedure which enables it to us to construct unicorns and horse sculptures feathery.
How far would be the "Progress" Without which horse come? When you consider that rising into the Industrial Age to settle on the back of the horses cleared became.
Positive deduction of the standing unicorn.

Over a horse form which exists of different fragments becomes, on this occasion, in to several working steps, the sheet steel hammered. The positive impression him, besides, incurred, is cut out from this form and the single segments at last joined.
The standing unicorn is one of the plants which incurred in this technique.

Horse form for steel and copper unicorns.

Steel sculpture and copper sculpture unicorn.

Steel unicorn and copper unicorn about the horse form fortified with manganese steel pulled.

We plan by means of this technique to build a horse, more exactly even, Pegasus, which we then really in the sky can allow to climb up.

Copper art. Copper sculpture unicorn.

Sheet copper and sheet steel in the vacuum about a welded steel horse form models. Brazed, soft-soldered, welded, bright lustre-polished and decorates with annealing colours.
When once on an exhibition a copper smith's master saw the copper unicorn, this said such a thing he would not have seen in his life yet and how we would have made this fine.

Carrier of the abstract unicorn.

1. Burnt out horse forms for the abstracts unicorn.

2. Grind of the abstract unicorn on welding, in selfbuilt X Y Z co-ordinates cross grinding device.

3. The finished product. Steel sculpture: Abstract unicorn. Technique: Welded sheet steel with annealing colors. Fine grind and varnishes with 2K clear varnish.

Video: Abstract Unicorn

Runtime 0:28 min.

Swinging sculpture unicorn.

Unicorn on skids swinging. Meditation object. The concave form is filled partly with siliceous sand to change the oscillation amplitude of the swinging steel horse by misalignment of the centre of mass. Illuminated by coloured lights, the light on the whole body surface of the unicorn bundles up itself and throws back by the oscillation on the viewer a luminous, light cone. Light bath.

Video: The Horse is burning.

The unicorn in a fire installation runtime 1:03 min.

Video: The Horse on color

Meditation object.
The unicorn in a light installation.
Runtime 1:14 min.

Rising unicorns.

Rising unicorn. Sheet steel about form forged.

In the 12th century dschingis Khan with his rider's hordes on the back of her horses conquered a mighty empire which applied from the China Sea up to the borders of Europe. By the force of the horse the person overcame the distances and conquered the big spaces.
Small racehorse.

Small racehorse, welded steel sculpture.

Horse forms.

By surface welding and fine-grinding modeled horse forms.

Rising horse and racing horse form in development.

Project studies prototype 3D CAD abstract steel racing horse in 2013

Project study prototype 3D CAD abstract steel racing horse in 2013
render image of sketch preview about the developmental preliminary stage of abstract 3D prototype of construction model for a full-size racing horse steel sculpture.
Video: Prototype 3D CAD abstract steel racehorse 2013
Runtime 1:07 min.
Video: 3D CAD Race Horse 2015 x3d
Runtime 0:54 min.

project study prototype 3D CAD abstract rising steel horse 2012

Render image of sketch preview about the developmental preliminary stage of abstract 3D prototype of construction model for a full-size rising horses steel sculpture.

Video: 3D CAD abstract rising steel horse in 2012

3D CAD abstract rising steel horse in 2012

Runtime 0:56 min.

Project study prototype 3D CAD of abstract running Jaguar Cheetah in 2015

Sketch preview prototype about the developmental preliminary stage of an abstract construction model for a full-size abstract running Jaguar Cheetah in 2015 steel sculpture.
Video: 3D CAD of abstract running Jaguar Cheetah in 2015

3D CAD of abstract running Jaguar Cheetah in 2015

Runtime 0:38 min.

Horse portraits commissioned work.

Naturalistic oil-paintings on canvas. In 2007.
animal portraits after photo on inquiry.

Birds and bats.

Here the empire of the beings of the sky begins.
Hennings the first bird's head studies go back till 1989.

Milan.

This Milan is drawn with Hammer impact and thereby received his typical surface.
Turret falcon.

Bats.

Chiropterans, Vespertilio, flight mouse. Nightshade enthusiasts and chiroptera

Dolphins.

In the faith of the old people the dolphin stood for the vitality of the sea: Water - thalassa - as a spring of the life. delphys gr. Computer word for dolphin, is used with the computer word delphi's , womb.

Cupid is probably the best known, the gods who ride a dolphin!

The dolphin, the friend of the people. Rescuer of the person from sea need. (And if not from sea need, then rescue of the soul welfare.) Only short time we put to ourselves the question, whether dolphins and whales in her manner possibly are as intelligent, how we ourselves. Most lines of thought assume from the fact, that the person because he EARTHS supposedly as the only living being on that in the possession of a rational intelligence is, the summit of the creation explains.

Probably think in WATER of us the same.

Copper dolphin.

Dolphin galvanizes with copper coating, freeform-atmospheric pressure-modelling procedure, steel sheet hollow body.

Garden Sculpture dolphin with rust patina and tin.

Dolphin as a welded metal - garden sculpture. Made from air pressure-modeled sheet steel, partially tin-plates with rust patina.
Dimensions: Deepness 130 cm x height 40 cm x width 40 cm.
wire dolphin as a plant tub.

Garden sculpture wire dolphin from conductors modeled and welded. Stable conducting to the fill with peat and plant soil. With more intrigued Water inflow circuit. Dimensions: Deepness 160 cm x height 80 cm x width 40 cm.

Pteranodon flight saurians wire sculptures.

Steel sculpture: Flight saurians on granite. In 2007. Modeled from wires and metal sheet. Weld-surfaced and fine-ground, with fish skeleton in the beak. Kinetic sculpture with movable wings.
The flying, prehistoric, carnivorous reptile: Pteranodon-flight saurian was before 228-65 million years, in spite of his wingspan up to 12 metres, a featherweight, on account of his bat-like true skin wings.
Steel wire sculpture pteranodon-flight saurians.

Pteranodon-flight saurians. Flight-dragon. Sculptured from wires and sheet metal. Weld-surfaced and fine grind.
Pteranodon Flight-saurian mobiles

steel sculpture: Pteranodon-flight saurians mobile. Flying dragon. Modeled from wires and metal sheet. Weld-surfaced and fine-ground with fish skeleton in the beak. Kinetic sculpture with movable wings.
Dinosaur

Little one Dinosaur.
Manufactured from sheet steel, to hollow bodies welded and with atmospheric pressure sculptured.

Butterflies.

Small serial production object: Steel butterflies in 9 kinds an in '10 piece.
Working methods: Butterfly's contour with the plasma cutting machine low-cut. Contours deburs and the surface partially ground. Butterfly's body, as well as sensor from round bar steel welded. The wing drawings in the form of annealing colours with the burner flame provides. Varnished with 2 components varnish. Signs.
1.) Quail's wheat check butterfly
2.) Big fox
3.) Apollo butterfly
4.) Day peacock butterfly
5.) Dovetail
6.) Atlas spinner
7.) Papilio Ulysses tropical butterfly
8) Sky-blue
9) Brimstone butterfly

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