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rtrapasso -> RE: Test Thread (1/20/2006 5:01:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Mynok
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Actually, there is a school of sculpture that deals in this - they use high explosives (C4, etc.) to create metal sculptures (used to cut and fuze metal in strange ways)...
Ah yes, the famous Naval Attack school of sculpture......
Just for grins, i tried looking this up. Not sure what the name of the school is, but got the most relevant hits from "explosive forming art". Apparently, the technique of using explosives to join metal together is called "explosive forming" (although "explosive forging" is apparently a synonym). The technique is used for forming parts as an industrial technique, and somewhere along the line, the sculptures picked it up.
Hard to have your studio in say, Manhattan or Central London, i would guess. The one story i saw about it (years ago) had an artist practicing out in the middle of a desert. You can also imprint things like flowers, etc. directly onto the metal sculpture using this technique.
Anyway, this building (below) the "Theatre Alphen a/d Rijn or "Theatre Castellum" is made out of 1600 explosive formed panels:
[image]local://upfiles/7543/6B6B453E99F54220B1ADF3ED51BF0538.jpg[/image]
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