Buscando el Eco (installation) (2020) Sculpture by Kleinmanzano

Three Steel Blue Penguins, hammered with a hot flame on the anvil, installation

Again Cosé has been captured by the implications of Global Warming: he imagined what the future would be for penguins, because at this very moment they are losing their habitat. He already had a title: ‘Buscando el eco’ (‘Looking for the echo’ in English) which refers to the child game he used to play with his friends, which consisted in letting sound echo against the mountains of his village. But this time we’re not talking about nearby mountains, but glaciers and icebergs that are disappearing.

Then, after having researched on ways and techniques of metal polishing, Cosé started building a constructivist image of a penguin, which he hammered with a hot flame from recycled tempered steel. He polished it in two different ways and finished it with a blowlamp, to evoke a contrast between breast and back, from high gloss at the breast to blue shades at the back.
In the end he created a group of three, and he would always put them on those little oval shapes of steel that can be understood as the melting water beneath their feet...

The price is for this group of three Penguins.

Material: tempered steel
Measures: The measures of a group of Penguins depend on how they stand together. We estimate you need at least a spot of 50 x 50cm, as every penguin measures approx. H 37 cm x W 14 cm x D 18 cm (H 14 ½” x W 5 ½” x D 7 1/16”)
Techniques: (hot) hammering on the anvil, welding, polishing, heat coloring
Colors: The colors are the natural steel colors after sanding, polishing and heat treatment, and go from blue, to dark gray and shiny metal.

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Three PenguinsMetal ArtAnimal SculptureClimate ChangeAntarctica