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Adrian Legierse

Country: the Netherlands
Date of birth: 1938
Tags: sculptor, stainless steel, modern art, contemporary art, Art Antique, Art.Fair, visual art, visual artist, sculpture

Lifetime steelworker: Experience evolved into fine art craftsmanship.

Adrian spent his employment years working with stainless steel in the agriculture food industry. After years of experience, this white shiny metal alloy keeps no secrets from him anymore. Cutting, bending, hammering, folding, welding, grinding, polishing and coloring … treating this perdurable and nearly everlasting material finally became more and more a routine.
He retired, however his enthusiasm for this challenging and tough material did not cease. He decided to create unique objects of art, contributing to his still improving learning curve.
This was a challenging goal, since he decided upfront that all of his objects should be three-dimensional, real-life sculptures, made from stainless steel sheet, rod, tube and wire.
He started his career in arts a long time ago, with the creation of a small stainless broche for his fiancée, who is now his beloved wife. The drive to continue forging his creativeness into stainless steel has never left him since.
The welding together is done by the one of the methods he learned: coated-rod/electric arc welding, which nowadays is rapidly vanishing and being replaced by gas protected wire/electric arc welding like TIG/MIG.
The many pieces and parts, which are necessary to build one art object, are all handcrafted with tools such as: chisels, pliers, shears, hammers, sanding paper and the like... and not to neglect with a lot of patience, together with love and inspiration!
Some or all the surface parts are colored by using a precise and timed heating process, that results in an everlasting patina of soft colors dissolving in each other.

The art objects, created by Adrian, are all one-of-a-kind and unique in the world.