Kaare Golles, 2023
Fossil (Michelin) - Bronze Sculpture by Kaare Golles
Edition
DKK 6,000
- Material
- Black patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 13 x 7 x 7 cm
- Edition
- Limited edition of 12 + 4 Artist's Proofs (AP)
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
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"Fossil (Michelin)" by Kaare Sebastian Golles, cast in black patinated bronze, is part of his FOSSILS series, an ongoing body of work that explores cycles of creation, destruction and recreation through the symbolic lens of the car.
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The work
The project began during a fishing trip, when Golles retrieved a discarded car tyre from the seabed. That image, a mass-produced petroleum-based object returning to the ocean floor, became a symbol: organic matter transformed by industry, now sinking back as a future fossil.
From that tyre, Golles sculpted fossil-like forms and cast them in bronze. "Fossil (Michelin)" distills one of those forms into a compact, hand-sized sculpture.
Materials and making
Cast bronze
Bronze holds detail that few materials can. Each bronze is cast from the same mould and hand-chased to retain the detail of the artist's original. Patina is applied individually, so tonal and surface variation should be expected across the edition.
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Mould and wax
The artist's original is captured in a flexible mould, from which a hollow wax replica is taken and refined by hand until every surface matches the source.
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Lost-wax casting
The wax is encased in a ceramic shell and fired; the wax runs out and molten bronze is poured into the void it leaves, taking on the exact form of the original.
03
Chasing and assembly
The rough cast is released from its shell, sprues removed, and seams chased away by hand so the metal reads as a single continuous surface.
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Patina and finish
The finished bronze is coloured with heat and chemistry, then sealed with a hand-applied patina unique to each edition.
Made at
Fonderia Artistica Mariani
Italy · Est. 1952
Founded in 1952, Fonderia Artistica Mariani is an Italian art foundry known for precision bronze casting. Each work is cast using the traditional lost-wax and vacuum-shell methods that capture the finest surface detail, then chased, finished and patinated by hand.
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The artist
Kaare Golles
1985, Denmark · Sculpture, Installation
Kaare Sebastian Golles studied architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture (BA, 2011) before completing an MFA at Malmö Art Academy (2014) under Professor Haegue Yang. His sculpture and installation practice explores the tension between nature and culture, probing what lies beneath the "civilized surface" of contemporary life.
He is the founder of PINTO PROJECT, an independent project space and publication platform in Copenhagen. His work has been presented at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Kunsthal Nord, Volta (Basel) and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, and he created a permanent public monument for the poet Inger Christensen in Copenhagen (2021).
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Details
- Artist
- Kaare Golles
- Title
- Fossil (Michelin) - Bronze Sculpture by Kaare Golles
- Year
- 2023
- Material
- Black patinated bronze
- Dimensions
- 13 x 7 x 7 cm
- Edition size
- Limited edition of 12 + 4 Artist's Proofs (AP)
- Signature / marking
- Engraved
- Publisher
- Edition Solenne, Copenhagen
- Primary market release
- 2023
- Acquisition
- Acquired directly from Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 8-12 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed and numbered by the artist and publisher
- Returns
- Consumers in the EU may withdraw within 14 days of delivery, except where the work is produced to individual specification, as stated on the invoice. Contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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