Jul 25, 2022 - Thomas Sayre
Welcome to the latest edition of The Concretely Newsletter 🔲.
Help build the Concretely Collection
I’m looking to build a little collection of concrete sculptures. To get started, starting a quick competition. The winner artwork will become the inaugural piece of the Concretely Collection.
Original, unique work, theme: New beginnings
Budget: $250, including shipping
Shipping + size: needs to be safely shipped to San Diego, CA
Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2022
To submit work, please email the title, year, size, material of work and 2-5 high resolution photos of the piece to info@theconcretely.com with the subject line “Concretely Collection“. One artwork per artist please.
New Art & Artists
Submit new art at https://bit.ly/sendconcrete. We’ve just passed 210 artists on The Concretely - check them all out on the website. New names include:
Thomas Sayre
Profile: Thomas Sayre 🔲 (USA)
“Earth casting is a way of working whereby I create molds by sculpting directly in the earth where the earth is strong enough to not crumble. Then we put reinforcing steel and then concrete in that trench, let it cure, then dig around it to release it from the earth and then pick it up with the crane and stand it on a foundation.“
ABSID
Profile: ABSID 🔲 (Sweden)
ABSID is the sculptural output of Stockholm based artists and architects Maximilian Olsson and André Prusic. Their work combines the use of digital design and manufacturing techniques with traditional crafts to create sculptures that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital world.
Ciro Duclos
Profile: Ciro Duclos 🔲 (Netherlands)
“Duclos often prefers to work with ordinary objects, turning the mundane into the sublime. Some of his other installations have included a set of seven hand-painted concrete work gloves, collections of glass transportation pallets and a series of mostly concrete pillars, amalgamations of repurposed scraps from around his studio.”
Sincerely,
The Concretely Editorial Board