Aschenbrener Bronze, Shawano, United States

Aschenbrener Bronze

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From a small town in Northern Wisconsin emerges an artist with a vision to integrate his medium with the magnificence of the natural world.

There are many different kinds of bronze sculptures in the world. Bronze sculpture is also simply called a “bronze.” Some bronzes are mass-produced, some are limited runs, and others are one offs. The choice to create a reproducible bronze is one that David has yet to choose and all of his bronzes are one of a
kind, no replicas or doubles exist.

The process involved in creating an Aschenbrener bronze is extremely labor intensive and takes hours upon hours to complete. The majority of bronze sculpture starts as a wax sculpture and then proceeds down the road of the casting process. David’s work adds a step and starts as ice, a frozen form. Unlike sculpting in a wax form from the beginning, David takes disassociate blocks of ice and sees the bigger picture of how they will fit together at the end of the bronze casting process.

David wades out into the shallows lakes to chop out ice, climbs up on dams to harvest the ice, and pulls down icicles from houses. The ice dictates what the final sculpture is going to look like, and David plays off of this relationship. He never knows the final shape and color and look of a piece until the very end, when he seals the vibrant colors onto the bronze.

After wading into the shallows and harvesting ice, he then carves the ice piece with different tools and techniques. Once he has a shape that is satisfying, he turns it into wax. This process is secret and David is the only person in the world who is turning ice into bronze.

Once the ice is a wax form, David applies texture and patterns to give the wax interest and depth. Still at

this point, the wax forms are disassociated shapes, not fully together, but closer to being a finished product than they started as. At this stage, David sends the wax to the foundry where it will be turned into bronze.

Up to this point, only about half of the work that it takes to produce an Aschenbrener bronze is finished. The foundry covers the wax form in an extremely hard ceramic shell to form the mold for the bronze to be poured into in place of the wax.

After the bronze has dried and cooled inside the ceramic mold, the shell is smashed and hammered away to reveal raw bronze. David then takes the fronze forms to his studio where he “chases” the imperfections out of the sculptures. Once the imperfections are gone, David has to re-add some of the detail that was chased away.

The next 20 hours or so our are spent applying certain chemicals and heat to the bronze to pull out certain colors in the accelerated patina process. Later when the last dot of color is put on the bronze, it sealed forever with a permanent wax coating able to stand up to any of the elements.

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W10181 Cherry Rd, Shawano, United States

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