Despina
| Author: | La Fucina di Efesto, Laboratorio Tac |
| Design and creation: | La Fucina di Efesto |
| Materials: | steel, iron, copper, brass |
| Technique: | fire curved front bands |
| Finishing: | microcrystalline wax, powder coating |
| Dimensions: | H 90 x L 64 x P 20 cm |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Photo Credits: | Vittorio Canisi |
Despina is a collection of artworks, each unique and original, born of researches on the aesthetic nature of metals: iron, steel, copper and brass are treated by experimenting new processing techniques and different chromatic combinations.
Iron is a living material, it protects itself from atmospheric agents by oxidizing and taking dark and patchy shades (polychromies).
«The inner soul appears when the external skin opens out: a symbol of an unhealable wound».