welcome to the blog for steel art aficionados by steelsculptress isabella devinast!

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Please find an excerpt of my works below.
Please find the walk-in sculptures also in the archive.



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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Walk-in Sculptures








Although i work freely, based on my thoughts and feelings about the impressions that flood my awareness, i specialise in walk-in sculptures in steel for entrance halls and gardens/outdoors, partly amplified through colour and/or leaf gilding.
These works provide experiences that make life more intense.
My Walk-in Sculptures foster the development of new thoughts as they change your perception of proximities. You are able to let yourself glide into new horizons whilst buzzing in energies you create through your own mind.
Thus they are perfect places to arrange meetings, brainstormings, gatherings, think tanks or just dinner parties in an extraordinary setting. They merge protection, simplicity, pureness and strength and appear light and fragile at the same time.







Walk-in-Sculptures are available as commissions.







view from above, only minutes after finishing


Some of the sculptures that were burned out are leaning against the wall of the next house. They will always be connected with the matrix. Therefore, these works are perfect to build a connection between different places.








Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Brünnhild and The Shadow Of The Valkyrie

Brünnhild, 1998
Steel
approx 35 x 50 x 2 cm










The Shadow Of The Valkyrie
Steel
approx 45 x 60 x 2 cm




Josephine Baker Cycle

Tutu De Bananes, 1998
Steel
approx 90 cm height, 90 cm diametre, 1,4 cm strong



steel, synthetic protection layer


The last work of the cycle. For the whole cycle please click here.

Duncan Matrix

The Duncan Cycle

Duncan Matrix, 1999
Steel, 24ct gold leaf
approx 150 cm height, 90 cm diametre, 1,4 cm strong




steel, synthetic protection layer

steel, synthetic protection layer


Last piece of the cycle. For the whole cycle please click here.


Saturday, May 25, 2013

Olympic

Olympic Flowers, 2006
Steel, 24ct gold leaf.



approx.  50 x 25 x 1,4 cm



Friday, May 24, 2013

Mantras

Started in 2001, ongoing project, direct impact from 9/11 2001 and The Love Works.
Various sizes, any Mantra can be commissioned.
Steel, 24ct gold leaf.



greek / turkish



arabic / hebrew


prepared so far to create:

greek / turkish (as above)
hebrew / arabic (as above)
amharic (Ethiopia) / tigrinya (Eritrea)
spanish / euskara (Basque)
singalese / tamil (both Sri Lanka)
tibetan / chinese


Nänie

Totenklage oder Trauergesang im Alten Rom.

Ein Gedicht von Friedrich Schiller, das vertont wurde von Johannes Brahms zum Andenken an den Maler Anselm Feuerbach.

Ich habe mir erlaubt, einen Buchstaben zu entfernen, um die Aussage zu modifizieren.
50 x 60 cm.

Photos von David Nassim.



Acryl und Kohle auf Leinwand

Acryl und 24ct Blattgold auf Leinwand



Championsleague, 2006

Steel, 24ct gold leaf, approx. 45 x 45 x1 cm


can be commissioned at any time

detail

Stahlweiber - Steel Dames

frontal perspective






frontal perspective

back perspective






Thursday, May 23, 2013

I will never ever marry you

'ich werde dich niemals heiraten', 2005
steel, earth, grass
approx. 130 x 100 x 1cm

installed outside, front look







outside, side view
inside installation, front view

inside, side view


The Amazons

The Amazons' Matrix, 2000
Steel, 24ct gold leaf


150 x 300 x 1,4cm, ca 450kg




















Amazons


In ancient Greek times, the patriarchy was ‘invented’ and established as political form. Thus women were considered as less worthy than men, which is still a common view on this planet. It was said, that a woman, to be as good as a man in ‘male’ skills, has to delete some femininity in herself or her body.

A direct impact of this decision was to be seen in the reporting of the Amazons, who were described as being ‘as strong and skilled in war crafts as men’. In the first 1000 years of historical coverage by the Greeks, they have always been seen as normal women. After this period of time, when the patriarchy was carburized in the subconscious, the narration of Amazons tales was attended by pictures of women with only one or even without breasts, which they should have burned or cut off with a sword for the better handling of bow and arrow... it was even said, that the name ‘Amazons’ came from the ancient Greek ‘á mazòs’, which was meant to be translated as ‘without breasts’, which was disproved in later times as a peoples derivation.

I allow my Amazons to have full, strong and beautiful breasts. Just as an expression of life force and joy to be a woman. And as a tribute to the original reports of their members.


Another important aspect of this work is the theme uniformity.

When you look at the Matrix, you will see this army of Amazons, 28 of them, where every Amazon seems to resemble the next, like one egg to another. But if you take them out of their army, see them quasi naked, you discover that they are all individual. Without their arms, you can only tell about their profession by the posture they share.

So please take this thought and think it to the end.



Amazone no. 21




Text der Amazonenmatrix
auf die Matrix in altgriechisch mit 24ct Blattgold geschrieben

Penthesileia hat, wie alle ihre Kriegerinnen, wahrhaftig zwei, noch dazu unübersehbar üppige, Brüste. Der überlieferte Mythos, nachdem Achilleus sich erst unmittelbar nach der Tötung und Entwaffnung der Amazonenkönigin hoffnungslos in sie verliebte, mag durchaus in dieser Üppigkeit jener weiblichen Attribute begründet gewesen sein. Dass indessen alle Amazonen, kriegstüchtig, wie sie einmal waren, sich um der Kriegskunst besserer Ausführung willen einer oder gar beider Brüste, sei es durch Stahl oder Flamme entäussert hätten, ist eine Erfindung späterer Epochen. Dieselbe ist einer jenem Weibervolke allenfalls psychosymbolisch angedichtete, doch ganz und gar nicht real, geschweige denn mythologisch gerecht werdende Zumutung. So liegt denn auch der Erklärung des Wortes "Amazone", gemäss a-mazós, also "ohne Brust" (=busenlos) eine längst als falsch erwiesene Volksethymologie zugrunde.


Zu den Amazonen

Was passiert, wenn ich einen Menschen aus einer scheinbar gleichförmigen Masse -in diesem Falle eine Armee- herauslöse?
Was tritt hervor?
Hier zeigt sich die Individualität, die Haltung, der höchst persönliche Ausdruck, bar jeder „Stammeszugehörigkeit“, die sich an Oberflächlichkeiten festmacht. Dieser Mensch ist quasi pur, seine inneren Werte, seine Würde, sein Maß an Kraft und Selbstwert zeigen sich ungeschminkt, er kann sich nicht verbergen hinter Uniformitäten eines bestimmten Standes.
Er zeigt sich unverhohlen in der Essenz seiner Persönlichkeit.
Es sei denn, er hat gelernt, selbst nackt sich zu tarnen. Doch was muß geschehen sein, daß dies vonnöten ist? Daß ein menschliches Wesen so wenig Vertrauen hat, daß es sich niemals zu erkennen geben möchte? Wievielen von uns ergeht es so? Wer kokettiert damit? Und wieviele haben den Mut, sich entblößt in all ihrer Verletzlichkeit, Kraft und Schönheit zu zeigen?


Penthesileia, the last queen of the Amazons


installed during one of my open studios in Cologne



detail