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01 — Material

Bronze
and Time

A timeless material holding centuries of human history. Fluid in hot flames, eternal in its form. Each curve captures a tense, dramatic moment.

Born of molten fire and creative will, it stands to bridge our ancient memory and modern vision. A fluid energy frozen in still, heavy bronze.

Editorial Concept
02 — History

Marble
Emotion

A sculpture frozen at the peak of human suffering and heroic struggle. Laocoön and his sons, bound by ruthless fate.

03 — Motion

Liquid Metal

Art that breathes. Mesmerizing waves of liquid bronze flow through space, reflecting every contour and tensed muscle of the ancient masterpiece.

Roughness 0.42 — Metalness 0.92 — Real-time shader

04 — Digital

Eternal
Moment

Contemplating antique form through the lens of new dimensions. A classic masterpiece reborn in the currents of radiant digital matter.

Rendered live — WebGL / Three.js

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05Manifesto

What survives
the fire

Every cast begins as a loss. The wax model is destroyed to make the bronze possible — the original must be given up before the permanent thing can exist.

The Laocoön has been copied, measured, plastered and argued over for five centuries. It was unearthed in Rome in 1506 and identified almost immediately; Michelangelo is recorded among the first to see it. The marble group, attributed to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, has been held by the Vatican Museums ever since.

What draws us back is not the anatomy. It is the decision the sculptors made to hold the figure at the instant before collapse — not the struggle, not the defeat, but the breath between them. That is the hardest moment to carve and the only one worth carving.

This study translates that decision into bronze and into real-time rendering. The alloy is worked to a semi-polished state: reflective enough to carry a moving light, matte enough to keep the form readable. Roughness is held at 0.42, metalness at 0.92 — values chosen by eye, then fixed.

The result is a piece that is never seen the same way twice. The light moves because you move. What you are looking at is not a photograph of an object; it is the object, lit again every frame.

Bronze does not remember the hand that shaped it. It remembers the heat. — Foundry note, undated
06Index of details

Plates

Nine studies of surface, tension and edge. Read them as a set — the relationships between the plates carry more than any single frame.

Full editorial view of the bronze study
( Fig. A )Full view — raking light
0.42
Surface roughness. Low enough to hold a specular highlight, high enough that the form never dissolves into reflection.
( Fig. B )Material value
Detail crop — upper mass
( Fig. C )Detail — upper mass
Detail crop — contour break
( Fig. D )Detail — contour break
Cu
Sn
Copper and tin. The oldest alloy still in continuous use for sculpture — unchanged in principle since the second millennium BC.
( Fig. E )Alloy
Detail crop — shadow side
( Fig. F )Shadow side
360°
The camera completes one full revolution across the length of the stage. There is no back of this piece — only the side you have not reached yet.
( Fig. G )Orbit
07Specifications

The record

Catalogue entry
Title
Bronze and Time
Series
Laocoön Studies, No. 04
Material
Cast bronze, semi-polished
Patina
Warm brown, hand-applied
Method
Lost-wax casting (cire perdue)
Height
142 cm
Weight
96 kg
Edition
8 + 2 artist's proofs
Year
2026
Digital twin
Real-time, WebGL
Process

  1. Model

    The form is built in wax over an armature. Everything that will exist in metal must first exist in a material soft enough to be wrong.

  2. Invest

    The wax is encased in a ceramic shell and fired. The wax runs out and is gone — the mould is now a void in the exact shape of the work.

  3. Pour

    Bronze enters the shell at roughly 1,150 °C. The pour takes seconds; the cooling takes a day. Nothing can be corrected in between.

  4. Chase & patinate

    The shell is broken away, sprues cut, seams chased back by hand. Heat and chemistry bring up the patina. Only then is the surface polished back to 0.42.

08Editions

Availability

Eight casts, two proofs. Each is numbered at the base and accompanied by the foundry record and a certificate of the digital twin.

Cast 01 – 03
Full Cast

142 cm, full-height bronze on a blackened steel plinth. Includes on-site installation.

Available
Cast 04 – 06
Study Cast

84 cm reduction, identical patina and finish. Table or pedestal mounted.

Reserved
A/P I – II
Artist's Proof

Retained proofs with an unpolished mill finish. Not for general sale.

Not available