Verticil Sculpture
The exhibition, which ran from October 21st to November 13th, was situated in the gallery of The Royal British Society of Sculptures in Old Brompton Road London.
Based on The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner, the exhibition named ‘Fafners Cafe’ explores Charles' unique vision and interpretation of the key elements of mathematics, music, earth texture and engineering. The exhibition has garnered praise from a number of prominent figures in the industry including RBS 2009 President Joannes Von Stumm and sculpturess Helaine Blumenfeld who celebrated his vision and use of engineering to convey contemporary art.
Coupe Foundry supplied castings for three of the pieces featured in the exhibition, which includes the 'Verticil' sculpture which has been featured in the prestigious location of Hanover Square, London. The sculpture was cast in the foundry in sections from polystyrene patterns and the geological texture worked by Charles in his workshop.
This special creative pairing of Charles and Coupe Foundry existed for a number of years with Coupe Foundry collaborating with him on some of his finest and most exciting projects.
Six years ago the foundry cast a number of plates that formed a piece in the series 'Caesura' that can be found situated next to the A1 in Wakefield.
In 2007 Charles was commissioned to site a sculpture in the revamped Salford Quays area and alongside Coupe Foundry cast a piece entitled 'Adagio' part of another series that reproduces the sweeping movement of rock morphology, music, mathematics and engineering.
Steve Rowland of Coupe Foundry says of their pairing, “When we were approached to produce some castings for Charles we were very apprehensive to say the least. By nature we produce castings for the engineering industry and we didn’t realise the benefits to somebody like Charles who has a totally different view of what a casting is. To us it is a metallic object produced by pouring molten iron into sand moulds to create a shape already pre-determined by a pattern; however to Charles there is a completely different vision. His iron and nodular iron castings are visions of something of beauty, not necessarily a casting for an engineering purpose.”
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