{"id":7860,"date":"2014-09-23T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:56:52","slug":"brett-mcdanel-steampunk-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilavert.com\/blog_lilavert\/brett-mcdanel-steampunk-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Mcdanel – Steampunk sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brett Mcdanel<\/strong> – Steampunk sculptures (USA)<\/p>\n

Brett McDanel (Oklahoma artiste), \u00e9galement connu sous le nom The Crazy Bird Man\u201d<\/em>\u00a0cr\u00e9e des sculptures steampunk avec des objets de r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration diverses, le plus souvent faite de metal et d’os.
\nCes six derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, il a pass\u00e9 son temps \u00e0 r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer dans les rues ou soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de ferraille des objets qui, pour la plupart des gens, sont insignifiantes : \u00ab\u00a0Pour les gens, c’est juste un morceau de m\u00e9tal, mais quand vous l’assemblez avec d’autres objets, il devient quelque chose de grand … une partie de quelque chose. L’ensemble de ces cr\u00e9ations ont une place.<\/em> \u00ab\u00a0
\nIl raconte \u00e0 sa propre histoire de vie, en ajoutant : \u00ab J’ai pass\u00e9 la moiti\u00e9 de ma vie perdue puis un jour, il y eu ce d\u00e9clic qui m’a remis sur le bon chemin … le travail du m\u00e9tal.<\/em> \u00ab\u00a0
\nMcDanel cr\u00e9e ses sculptures \u00e0 l’instinct en soudant et en broyant les pi\u00e8ces de m\u00e9tal. Les assemblages peuvent prendre des heures, des jours, voire des semaines, mais dans tous les cas il en sort une aura particuli\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

Norman, Oklahoma artist Brett McDanel, also known as \u201cThe Crazy Bird Man\u201d constructs innovative industrial steampunk sculptures from found objects and bone. For the last six years McDanel has spent his free time scouring the streets and the scrap yards for parts that, to most people, are insignificant. The artist states, \u201cWhen walking down the street you find a random piece of metal that doesn\u2019t belong there. All by itself, it\u2019s just a piece of metal, but when you place it with other objects, it becomes something bigger… a part of something. All together these creations have a place.\u201d He relates it to his own life story adding, \u201cI spent half my life lost and then somewhere along the way something clicked and put me where I belong… here working with metal.\u201d Using his background in construction he up-cycles gears, widgets, thingamabobs and other found parts, animating them into action as featherless fiends, clawed cats, humanoid busts, edgy furnishings and otherwise eccentrically whimsical sculpture that often delivers a dark comical mood. He does not sketch or premeditate the designs. McDanel envisions the pieces assembling in his mind’s eye and attacks his hoard of jumbled parts with welding torch and grinder in hand. The resulting assemblages may take hours, days, or weeks, but in every case create an object of whimsy and an astute example of the beautiful grotesque. Brett has created quite a reputation for his found object innovations. So much so that he now finds metal donations delivered to his home lawn and representative gallery on a weekly basis which has dramatically decreased his need to scour for parts and allowed him much more time to assemble them. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n