OUIL505: Design • Recycled

Edouard Martinet’s Masterfully Sculpted Animals and Insects Made from Bicycle, Car, and Motorcycle Parts

Source: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/04/edouard-martinet-assembled-creatures/

Artist: Edouard Martinet
Website: http://www.sladmorecontemporary.com/edouard-martinet/

• Nice example of object and environment
• Artist assembles interpretations of birds, insects, and other creatures
• Works are made from bycicle, motorbike and car parts
• nice use of recycled materials
• Representing nature through man made pieces of engineering (both sides of the spectrum) 

Quote from source:

"What sets Martinet’s work apart is the brilliant formal clarity of his sculptures, and their extraordinary elegance of articulation. His degree of virtuosity is unique: he does not solder or weld parts. His sculptures are screwed together. This gives his forms an extra level of visual richness – but not in a way that merely conveys the dry precision of, say, a watchmaker. There is an X-Factor here, a graceful wit, a re-imagining of the obvious in which a beautifully finished object glows not with perfection, but with character, with new life."

Edouard Martinet | Insectophile from Sladmore Contemporary on Vimeo.

Video Link: https://vimeo.com/165133678