Sculpture cast in bronze by the lost-wax process — a 5000-year-old workflow that has produced figurative bronze across every civilization with metalworking and continues unchanged in foundries that pour for contemporary artists. Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, and Antony Gormley all work or worked through commercial casting houses that take a wax-or-clay original and produce an editioned bronze with a patinated surface. The casting is the technical work; the patina sets the visual reading.
Greek Geometric solid-cast bronze, probably Corinthian; horses were votive deposits at Greek sanctuaries.
The cast bronze stands at the threshold between the unique and the multiple, before the threshold itself was named. The lost-wax pour is destruction in service of duplication: the wax dies so the bronze may live, and the bronze inherits not the form alone but the fingerprints, the file marks, the moments where the sculptor leaned closer than her plan. The mechanical reproduction of art has its analog ancestor in the foundry, but with this difference: the foundry's reproduction confesses its method on the sculpture's surface, where the patina ages and the seam-lines remain.
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