Creative Studio
Italian Marble Statue of a Fisher Boy (62″ height) arrived without a left arm and the upper part of his fishing rod. The missing parts were carved from a solid piece of Carrara marble. The seam where the two pieces were joined was hidden with our TCJ (Translucent Compound Joint) technology. The new part was patinated to match the color of the entire piece.
Late 17th Century Chinese Cobalt Blue on White Porcelain Vase (14” heigh) This vase was made using slightly bluish transparent glaze, and a cobalt blue paint for the design, which is very difficult to imitate as it gets blurry edges after firing. Both ears ware missing, and it had a web crack around the neck. As we could not find the same kind of vase we designed the ears from scratch based on the painting style, and what was available as an example from the same region and time period.
Missing or shattered fingers, hands, arms, noses, wings, horns and heads – all these injuries have been thoroughly treated in our hospital. Recarved, glued, patched, recasted, repatinated, they all were brought back to life.
Restoration is the best school ever for an artist who prioritizes aesthetics before anything else. You temporarily possess the actual piece of art that survived many generations that otherwise could only be seen in a museum. But here you can live with it, touch it, study it, then try to imitate its shape, color, and texture little by little approaching perfection. That process includes everything… If you want to carve a missing hand of a statue it’s not enough to just know anatomy and how to use tools. You need to immerse yourself in a certain epoch to understand the stylistic aspects of those days, how the sculptor thought, what kind of tools and processes he used. It is a deep plunge into art history besides everything else.
This is a hard pass, and this is poetry.
Restoration is the best school ever for an artist who values aesthetics for the first place. You temporarily possess the actual piece of art that survived many generations, that in the other conditions could be seen in a museum only.
But here you can live with it, touch it, study it, then try to imitate its shape, color, and texture little by little approaching the ideal.
That process includes everything…
If you want to carve a missing hand of a statue it is not enough to know anatomy and how to use tools. You need to immerse in a certain epoch to understand the stylistic aspects of those days, how the sculptor thought, what kind of tools and processes he used.
It is a deep plunge in art history beside everything else.
This is a hard pass, and this is poetry.
