ART WITHIN SURFACES
© David Gerstein
Momentum (2008), Gerstein’s largest outdoor sculpture in Singapore.
© David Gerstein
Nature Lover (2020).
Laser Technology and Powder Coatings for Outdoor Colourful Sculptures that Resist all Kinds of Weather Conditions Large-scale outdoor sculptures coated with bright colours are always eye-catching. To keep attract visitors, however, they need to maintain their properties over time despite being exposed to all kinds of weather conditions. To ensure this, the sculptor David Gerstein has even added a spray booth in his workshop in order to finely paint and protect all the artworks.
U
sing primary colours and subjects from day-to-day life, David
David (Dudu) Gerstein is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman and
Gerstein has become a second-generation pop-artist renowned
printmaker who began his career as a figurative painter depicting scenes
for his colourful metal sculptures than can be found in public
from his childhood. At the end of the ‘70s the artist decided to expand
spaces at every corner of the Earth.
the limits of two-dimensional painting, so he started to cut out the
The sculptures are designed to maintain an excellent aesthetic
main subjects of each painting and to cancel the background creating
appearance despite being exposed to several climatic and weather
a unique and iconic cut-out image, free standing in space, without the
conditions. In order to transform metal into art, the sculptor employs
standard and traditional square frame.
laser technology and a combination of powder basecoats and clearcoats
That led him to focus on sculptures mostly made by wood and use
that are applied in a painting booth inside the artist’s workshop.
industrial paints as coating. Through the use of primary colours and
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