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Life the Italian way: robots sculpt like Michelangelo

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/life-the-italian-way-robots-sculpt-like-michelangelo.aspxFor centuries, analysts have been trying to figure out what is the reason why Italian works achieve such perfectionism, which has influenced and definitely influenced world culture. And while they search for answers, Italian start-up company Robotor has invented a machine that is almost as good at sculpting marble masterpieces as its Renaissance-era [...]

ROBOTOR: THE SCULPTOR ROBOT THAT SHAPES CARRARA MARBLE!

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/robotor-the-sculptor-robot-that-shapes-carrara-marble.aspx ROBOTOR: THE SCULPTOR ROBOT THAT SHAPES CARRARA MARBLE! ... Through a three-dimensional scan, we were able to reconstruct the arch at a 1:3 scale, using 20 tons of processed marble. This work symbolized the power of technology serving humanity against the barbarism and injustices of war. ... " adds Filippo while watching the robot [...]

DIMITRIS ALITHINOS

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/dimitris-alithinos.aspxMosca’s workshop) Currently lives and works in Athens This work of the Greek artist Dimitris Alithinos, consultant of the Fetzer Institute, was created specifically for Global Gathering, and draws inspiration from the history of Assisi. The maternal body of contemporary taste, carved in Carrara marble, expresses the free maternal love [...]

A solution for the Elgin marbles: Robot-carved replicas?

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/a-solution-for-the-elgin-marbles-robot-carved-replicas.aspx A solution for the Elgin marbles: Robot-carved replicas? ... Williams told the Sunday Times he was eager to “change the temperature of the debate” and believed “there is space for a really dynamic and positive conversation within which new ways of working together can be found.... Fifty-nine percent of Brits think the [...]

From concept to completion, TORART offers various services for artists, museums, designers, architects

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/torart-services.aspx From concept to completion TORART, based in Carrara, specialises in sculpture, contemporary art, and design, utilising cutting-edge technology to process marble, stone, and other hard materials. ... This unique approach allows the Tuscan workshop to bring ideas to life, whether starting from scratch or working with customer-provided models.

Can Robots Replace Michelangelo? A powerful automated machine tries its hand at an ancient craft

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/can-robots-replace-michelangelo-a-powerful-automated-machine-tries-its-hand-at-an-ancient-craft.aspxPhotographer Caleb Stein and journalist Elaine Sciolino have narrated the world of LITIX (the new company that incorporates the brands ROBOTOR and TORART) in the context of Carrara, the "homeland" of marble and sculptors, documenting the process of a single sculpture's creation by a robot from beginning to end. The article earned the magazine's cover [...]

THORVALDSEN

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/thorvaldsen.aspx Bertel Thorvaldsen Cristo e i 12 Apostoli, 1821/1827 Marble Bertel Thorvaldsen was a leading representative of neoclassicism in sculpture, interpreted strictly aesthetic canons of that artistic movement with great formal purity. Although often compared to Canova, Thorvaldsen than the latter embodied a greater extent the Greek classical art style: the poses and expressions [...]

VINCENT DU BOIS

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/vincent-du-bois.aspxSchool Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (SAIC) & Roosevelt University (Chicago, USA), Mai 1992 Currently Lives and Works in Geneve Vincent Du Bois began his career in sculpture in a very traditional and academic way. After finishing school in Geneva and training on marble in the family business, he studied in Tuscany (Italy), where he was able to refine [...]

barry x ball

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/barry-x-ball.aspx Pasadena, 1955 Degrees: Pomona College di Claremont 1977 Currently Lives and Works in New York. Since the beginning of his activity Barry X Ball conceives his work as a contemporary response to great masterpieces of the past, not to replicate them, but to draw inspiration from them and challenge their beauty. For the rereading of the classic, the artist [...]

NICOLA SAMORÌ

https://www.torart.com/en-ww/nicola-samori.aspx Forlì, 1977 Degrees: Bologna’s Accademy of Fine Arts Currently Lives and Works in Bagnacavallo (Ravenna). All Nicola Samorìs’ work, convolved heads in marble, plaster or bronze, arise from the same question posed by the artist: “a painting, when he dies, becomes a sculpture?