Tenfold @ Broomhill
Ten reasons to experience the launch of ‘Tenfold’ – the new force in contemporary figurative bronze sculpture.
Broomhill is the home of Tenfold. Renowned for its vast contemporary sculpture collection, Broomhill has forged the Tenfold collection for all who respect and appreciate the traditional processes and forms of contemporary figurative sculpture.
Tenfold: sculptors in bronze
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You can get your own copy of the Tenfold Catalogue.
We want you to experience the Tenfold collection for all who respect and appreciate the traditional processes and contemporary forms of figurative sculpture.
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A wide range of work available
At Broomhill you can see our collection of indoor and outdoor contemporary figurative bronzes with prices ranging from £500 to £35 000.
The Making of a Bronze
Bronze has been used to cast sculpture since ancient times. Today, modern techniques and materials are used but the process remains the same, the one man has been using for 3000 years. If a foundryman from ancient Greece or Rome could visit us today many things would be familiar, so we really are part of a long and magical tradition.
Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture
The history of art contains an ever-changing catalogue of boundary pushers: artists who were castigated and rejected for making work dismissed by the art ‘establishment’ of the time. The Fauves, Dadaists, Expressionists, Stuckists, even The Impressionists – these were the radicals, the avant garde – criticised in their time for being concerned with concept rather than with manipulative skill.
In the 21st century art world, concept is king. Arguably, conceptually-based art now forms the establishment. It is the only new type of work promoted and exhibited in publicly-funded contemporary galleries. It is the only form taught, written about and fundamentally considered to be art…at least for now.
For such artists, the first step towards a new work is: the idea. Their works are a response to this initial, mainly intellectual, impulse. The works are thus produced to serve the idea or, more grandly, the concept and to conform, to a large extent, to the constraints of that concept. The works may even be created, to a plan or set of instructions, by assistants.
Yet there are other ways of working that may allow different, and sometimes greater, freedoms. There are thousands of artists working on the other side of what has become an accepted split or rift, between the conceptualists and the process-based makers. For these artists, concepts develop more organically during the drawing of images or the making of sculpture.
There have always been, and there continue to be, many artists for whom the making process is central – fundamental – to their artistic life. The works of such artists evolve and take on life, through the artist’s intense and obsessional involvement with the forms, structures and materials with which they are in contact.
What the works become, that is, their content and concepts, grows naturally from this emotional and physical involvement. Such works could not be brought into existence outside this essential framework.
TenFold is a group of artists content to accept the limitations of a traditional framework, without paying particular attention to the current month’s art magazines.
The TenFold artists tend to work figuratively, usually in response to life-forms whether human or animal. Most often they are communicating about the experience of being human. Working mostly from emotion, intuition and instinct rather than words, they involve themselves intensely with the materials and processes of their art, exploring and discovering as they go, and reacting as the works speak back to them.
They use bronze for their end product, not just because they want their pieces to endure, but for the love of the material and its unique qualities. It is the best material for what they want to convey.
Despite working within a superficially traditional context – bronze – they do push boundaries.
Their work speak for themselves – since few contemporary critics are likely to speak out on their behalf.
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