Iron Wire Sculptures by Mattia Trotta
Italian sculptor Mattia Trotta creates amazing sculptures from wire meshes, which at first glance, I mistook to be that by Ivan Lovatt
who works with almost the same materials. While Ivan Lovatt creates
sculptures from chicken wire, Mattia Trotta uses steel. Both artist also
employ different techniques.
Trotta starts from a skeleton of
steel wrapped around with wire. One by one, these wires are tangled and
compacted to fill the casing. As a skilled tailor who, with needle and
thread, sew a dress that fits perfectly on the body, Mattia Trotta with
iron creates a kind of dress that can give fullness and thickness to
thought and emotion, as he himself says: "Every wire and twist is given a
reason to exist.”
Brought to completion the iron figure
undergoes further treatment with acid to prevent corrosion and to
extract the natural shades and colors of the wires.
