More and more artists in the world choose to reuse waste to give them new life. Among these the American Chris Hynes, who stands out for his ability to blend industrial brutality and organic poetry in sculptures that seem suspended between life and death. His works, made with bolts, fragments of steel otherwise destined for oblivion, but also clay, explore deep themes such as the fragility of existence.
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Formed at the Ringling School of Art and Design and raised artistically under the guidance of the sculptor John Williams, Hynes found in the processing of metal not only an expressive means, but also an ethical language.
In recent years he has turned his attention to Essential species including polar bears and rare birds. Each carved creature is a tribute to the beauty in danger, an attempt to subtract from oblivion what risks disappearing. His sculptures, flexible in shapes but cold in materials, embody the contrast between organic life and industrial artificiality, symbolizing the impact of man on biodiversity.
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The artist says that this sculpture was born starting from a brake caliper of a Lamborghini was destroyed in a fire. Recovering some parts, he gave shape to a bull.
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Here, however, we are faced with a wonderful lion fish, whose creation began with a piece found at a demolitioner.
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His Majesty L’Aquila could not be missing!
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What can I say, I’m more amazing than the other!
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