Saint George modern art scrap metal sculpture

Saint George modern art scrap metal sculpture

Painted with transparent varnish for anti-rust protection

Dimensions: 30x20x40cm

This sculpture is not available. It will be recreated.

Many changes of materials can occur.

For custom size, please ask price

Any size can be made upon request and different pricing

Shipping in all the world

Processing time: 14 days

Shipping with Greek Post Service:

5-10 days in Europe

10-15 days to all the rest of the world

1,124.00 inc. VAT

Browse Wishlist
SKU: DEN-SAINT-GEORGE Categories: , , , , Tag: Artists: Share:

Saint George modern art scrap metal sculpture

 

A modern sculpture of Saint George made of scrap metal parts

 

Saint George modern art scrap metal sculpture is an artwork created by Greek visual artist Giannis Dendrinos. It is painted with transparent varnish for anti-rust protection. His inspiration for Saint-George is originating in his early attempts to draft figurative sculptures.

Size available: The price includes any dimension you wish up to 50cm height. Please define your size on order. The statue shown in picture is 40cm height x 32x20cm. Any size can be made upon request with different pricing. We are hipping in all the world. The time I need to prepare it is 10 days.

 

View more of Giannis Dendrinos artworks

Watch a video about Giannis Dendrinos metal sculpture art exhibitions

 

Where did I get my influence about Saint George?

The natural environment of African landscape, the primitive way of life and my father’s metal workshop where I used to spend many hours playing are the basic reasons that led me to metal sculpture by using engine’s spare parts. They provide me with shapes and forms which I weld, grind, polish and finally varnish. I feel that I always have something new to discover which lead to new ideas and inventions. Using parts is about constructing, assembling, disassembling. Try the infinite possibilities of combining various objects to form what I have in my mind.

My current themes are mostly humanoid. As am attempt to show the fragile nature of mankind through the birth cycle, the creation process, motherhood, love. On the other side, I experience metal sculpture as a game and revive my need to play by creating vehicles such as motorbikes, cars and trains.

The strong needs of an individual to explain his existence, to seek his origins, the power of the mind are themes that fascinate me. A challenge for me would be in creating huge metal sculptures involving movement in order to create kinetic sculptures (kinetic art). I admire kinetic artists such as Jean Tinguely, Alexander Calder and classic sculptors such as Henry Moore, David Smith. My goal through my artwork is to convey the way I experience life and my exploration of art by using an industrial material which is being transformed to an unusual medium in Art.

 

Who was Saint-George ?

Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalo-martyrs in Christianity, and he has been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades.

In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military saints, he is immortalised in the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. His memorial, Saint George’s Day, is traditionally celebrated on 23 April.

Source: wikipedia

 

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.

Weight 10 kg
Dimensions 30 × 20 × 40 cm