We love found artwork, and the way someone’s trash can become another’s treasure. In this case, London-based artist Leonardo Ulian used old tennis rackets, and combined them with reclaimed electronics to form fascinating sculptural mandalas.
Using solder to fuse pieces in elegant and often symmetrical ways, Ulian’s series also incorporates unexpected objects like pinecones, jewelry, and mirrors. The series is called Contrived Objects.
See more work on Ulian’s website.
Images © Copyright Leonardo Ulian.
Created during the Covid lockdown, Ulian’s work is playful but also highly artistic and well made. We also can’t help but notice faces in all of the rackets.
“This new series of ‘Contrived Object’ is just nothing but faces contrived with what I had in my studio these days of lockdown.
Sometimes by just looking at an object, the unconscious mind knows the way the object would like to be transformed.
The egg shape of the ‘head’ of these vintage rackets reminded me of something yet familiar but at the moment lost.
The result is a composition that resembles vaguely a human face made from a recycled object from the past, the racket, clashing with the rest of the elements, electronic parts, and the found objects.”
