Kellen Silverthorn’s stone sculpture entitled “Swede King”, inspired by the Koenigsegg Regera.
Kellen Silverthorn’s 12-piece exclusive exhibit of automotive stone sculpture, with each of his pieces sculpted from single blocks of the finest quality marble, incorporate timeless classic automotive forms from seven car-producing nations.
According to Silverthorn, a longtime collector of fine art, stone sculptures are among the earliest forms of art created by humans. Yet, more than 110 years since the first automotive art exhibits, stone car sculptures are rarely attempted.
Silverthorn’s sculpture methods pair iconic automotive designs through the ages with the beauty of natural stone and its infinite variations of color and pattern. All works are commissioned as unique pieces of art, and are a hybrid of old-world craftsmanship and state-of-the-art technology.
These 12 works, as rare as the iconic vehicle models they represent, demonstrate the scope of possibilities in the stone sculpture medium. All colours of the rainbow are included in the exhibit, plus black, white, and grey. Sculpture size varies from 53cm to 78cm in length, and 18kg to 36kg in weight.
Striking inlays are used selectively to help capture the essence of the depicted cars, which span from a 1930s Auto Union Streamliner to the present-day exotic Koenigsegg Regera.
“The process is a complete immersion in both the artistic form of the automobile through the ages, and the planet’s endless bounty of elegant stone,” said Silverthorn. “Each work is a stand-alone object of beauty and artistry, just like the exquisite cars they mirror.”
Silverthorn added that each individual sculpture has taken countless hours of intricate hand finishing, and painstaking inlays interwoven with the very latest in computer-aided milling robotics.
Silverthorn’s body of work proves that not only are automotive stone sculptures possible, but that they are consistently beautiful as well.
“Just like we humans can’t help but stare into campfires, and lose ourselves in fireworks, it’s all too easy to fall into a trance staring into any of these stone sculptures,” said Silverthorn.
“My quest is to liberate timeless automotive art forms from stone of distinction.” Each of his sculptures is one-of-one, so no car model will ever be repeated in the same stone. Otherwise, any car model, from any era, in any marble is possible.
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