UK-based artist Robin Bark has been licensed by Ford Motor Company to handcraft a limited-edition 1965 Ford Mustang fastback sculpture as part of the celebrations for the model’s 50th anniversary. Only 500 individual works will be produced, each cast in solid aluminum, polished, numbered and signed by the artist.
The collectible sculpture manages to capture the essence of the original Mustang in one piece that evokes power and motion. With a background in industrial design, graphic design ceramics and metalwork, Bark frequently combines his passion for cars with his love of art. He developed a series of cast-aluminum sculptures of classic motorbikes and sports cars, with the Mustang being his first American car sculpture.
“Mustang is a very different shape from the earlier cars I had done, which were more classically streamlined. I look for what the designers were trying to achieve with shapes, and try to capture the essence of the car while also imparting a sense of motion to a static object,” Bark explains.
He shapes the initial model in clay, with the fundamental shape then transferred into a resin version, which is polished to test how the light reflects off the contours. The resin model then becomes the pattern to cast an aluminum prototype. The model is then sent to a specialist casting pattern maker, with each casting polished to a finished piece that is signed and numbered by the artist and placed in a commemorative wood box.
Measuring 180mm (10 inches) in length and weighing more than a kilogram (2.2 pounds), the Ford Mustang sculpture is available through the artist’s website, robinbark-motorart.com.
The price was not made public, but feel free to tell us how much you’d give for it.
By Dan Mihalascu
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