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When automotive beauties are created from wire

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Created on February 26, 2016

Text:

Thomas Suter

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

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Daniel Reinhard

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Giuseppe Carusa with his work

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Giuseppe Caruso

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Front of the Giulia

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Rear of the Giulia

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Work on the front of an Alfa Romeo Giulia

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The finished Alfa Romeo Giulia

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Alfa Romeo 1900 Touring Coupé as a wire sculpture

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Alfa Romeo 1900 Touring Coupé as a wire sculpture

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Alfa Romeo 1900 Touring Coupé as a wire sculpture

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Front Alfa Romeo 1900

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Front Alfa Romeo 1900

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An Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ as a wire sculpture

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Sensitive welding work is required here

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Working on a wheel

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This work requires a lot of talent

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Alfa Romeo 4C Spider

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Front Alfa Romeo 4C Spider

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Front Alfa Romeo 4C Spider

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Color-contrasting interior design

Summary

Giuseppe Caruso shapes cars to scale as a wire skeleton, reducing them to a few essential lines that express the personality of the car. This requires sensitivity and aesthetic skill. Caruso has both. In this report, we watched Caruso at work and explained, both visually and textually, what his wire sculptures are all about.

This article contains the following chapters

A name obliges
Cars reduced to the essential lines
Elaborate preparation
Imitation desired
Still dreaming

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Enrico Caruso became famous in 1903 with the debut of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the aria "La donna è mobile": the audience was so enraptured by this load of concentrated Italianità from singer, composer and music that they demanded Caruso repeat the aria, something that rarely or never happens. So Caruso is a name that obliges - then as now. Only the scene changes. This time, Caruso's first name is Giuseppe, the medium is not singing but welding and the music about the capricious women has given way to the shapes of beautiful car bodies. And, of course, the location: Here the world-famous Metropolitan Opera in New York and there a modest, spartanly furnished studio in his house in Brugg.

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