The Most Amazing Iron Sculptures by Mattia Trotta

Italian artist Mattia Trotta creates the most amazing wire sculptures we’ve ever seen. The iron sculpture master begins the whole process with an outline drawing. Because he doesn’t use any welding or brazing, and works entirely with his hands, the hard manual labor is often preceded by a design on paper.

Trotta then creates a skeleton of steel wrapped around with wire. One by one, wires are tangled and compacted to fill-in the casing. Once complete, the iron sculptures are soaked in acid to prevent corrosion and to extract the natural shades of color from the wires.