​Croatian Artist Makes Life-size Sculptures with Matchsticks

Croatian Artist Makes Life-size Sculptures with Matchsticks

克罗地亚艺术家用火柴棒制作真人大小的雕塑

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　　By Gregory Stachel

　　25 January 2024

　　Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects.

　　A matchstick is the short, thin piece of wood that is used to make matches for lighting fire.

　　Horvat thinks nothing of using 210,000 matchsticks to create a life-size statue, or sculpture, of a musician playing on a large piano. The instrument even comes complete with matchstick strings.

　　But that was not enough for the 34-year-old from the northern village of Domasinec. He is just a year and a half away from completing his version of Michelangelo's sculpture of David.

　　Michelangelo was a famous Italian artist who lived about 500 years ago. He created a famous marble sculpture of The Bible's King David that is in the city of Florence.

　　"I need another 30,000 matchsticks to finish it. That is, it'll need about 430,000 in total," he said. "I've been working on it for six years."

　　Horvat began making small models, but in 2013 he took on a larger project. He decided to create a life-size version of American actor Al Pacino as his celebrated character Don Corleone from Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film The Godfather.

　　Sculptures that size would collapse without a supporting structure. He creates this additional structure from a material called papier-mâché or wood.

　　The Pianist is his second work that is of a large size. His third is Desperate Man, which is made of 54,000 matches and took a year and a half to make.

　　Horvat has shown his works in galleries in Croatia, including the capital Zagreb. But they are not, for now, available to buy.

　　I'm Gregory Stachel.

　　Antonio Bronic reported this story for Reuters. Gregory Stachel adapted it for VOA Learning English.

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　　作者：格雷戈里·斯塔切尔

　　日期：2024年1月25日

　　克罗地亚艺术家Tomislav Horvat并非第一个用火柴棒制作模型的人，但他可能正在创作最大的项目。

　　火柴棒是用来制作用于点火的火柴的短而细的木棒。

　　Horvat毫不在意使用210,000根火柴棒来创作一个真人大小的雕塑，这个雕塑是一个正在弹奏大钢琴的音乐家。这个乐器甚至配有火柴棒制作的琴弦。

　　但对于来自北部村庄Domasinec的34岁的他来说，这还不够。他离完成他对米开朗基罗的大卫雕塑的版本还有一年半的时间。

　　米开朗基罗是大约500年前的著名意大利艺术家。他创作了一座著名的大卫王的大理石雕塑，这座雕塑位于佛罗伦萨市。

　　他说：“我还需要另外30,000根火柴棒才能完成它。也就是说，总共需要大约430,000根。” “我已经做了六年了。”

　　Horvat开始制作小模型，但在2013年，他接手了一个更大的项目。他决定创作一个真人大小的美国演员阿尔·帕西诺的雕塑，这个雕塑是他在弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉1972年的电影《教父》中扮演的著名角色唐·科利昂。

　　这种大小的雕塑如果没有支撑结构就会倒塌。他使用一种叫做纸浆或木头的材料来创建这个额外的结构。

　　钢琴家是他的第二件大型作品。他的第三件作品是《绝望的人》，它由54,000根火柴制成，制作过程花了一年半的时间。

　　Horvat在克罗地亚的画廊展示过他的作品，包括首都萨格勒布。但是，他们目前还不能购买。

　　我是Gregory Stachel。

　　这个故事是Antonio Bronic为路透社报道的，Gregory Stachel为VOA学习英语进行了改编。

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　　这个故事中的词汇

　　piano – n. 一种大型乐器，有键盘，通过按黑白键来演奏，当钢琴内部的小锤子击打钢丝时会发出声音

　　string – n. 一种长而细的扭曲线程，用于附着物品，将物品绑在一起，或挂起物品

　　character – n.出现在故事、书籍、戏剧、电影或电视节目中的人物

　　gallery – n. 人们观看绘画或雕塑的房间或建筑物