Bronze Casted Wallpiece

The New Bronze Wall Piece shows an equally new development in Ben Storms’ work, which focuses mainly on the casting of a stone. It sounds simple, and in essence it is: Ben carefully selects fragments of natural stone, looking for expressive shapes that are largely intact, sometimes suggesting how they were extracted from the geological formations from which they were mined. They are translated into a mould and then cast, closely resembling the original pieces.

Complexity is thus less of a factor in the process, but all the more evident in the result. Playing with perception, transmuting materials, turning stone into bronze, seems like an alchemist’s trick. What is presented enchants, makes you question what you see, but also blends divergent materialities into a unique synthesis, an expressive unity. By placing the sculpture on the wall, gravity also becomes ambiguous. The scale adds to this, the massiveness exuding a primal strength.