Atelier Van Lieshout

Man of Steel

2014

Steel
50 x 50 x 185 cm

Man of Steel was forged in Atelier Van Lieshout’s mobile foundry Happy Industry, from a single piece of metal, by four blacksmiths who crafted the sculpture in a two-day timespan. The same people who designed the sculpture were also responsible for its production, and supplied the bare musclepower – in contrast with contemporary industrial production methods. The sculpture, a primitive human, is placed on a cubist pedestal. A juxtaposition between one of mankind’s most ancient sacred objects and an artistic movement striving towards the future.

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