Croatian Artist Makes Life-size Sculptures with Matchsticks

2024-01-26

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  • Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects.
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  • A matchstick is the short, thin piece of wood that is used to make matches for lighting fire.
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  • Horvat thinks nothing of using 210,000 matchsticks to create a life-size statue, or sculpture, of a musician playing on a large piano.
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  • The instrument even comes complete with matchstick strings.
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  • But that was not enough for the 34-year-old from the northern village of Domasinec.
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  • He is just a year and a half away from completing his version of Michelangelo's sculpture of David.
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  • Michelangelo was a famous Italian artist who lived about 500 years ago.
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  • He created a famous marble sculpture of The Bible's King David that is in the city of Florence.
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  • "I need another 30,000 matchsticks to finish it. That is, it'll need about 430,000 in total," he said.
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  • "I've been working on it for six years."
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  • Horvat began making small models, but in 2013 he took on a larger project.
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  • 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.
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  • Sculptures that size would collapse without a supporting structure.
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  • He creates this additional structure from a material called papier-mâché or wood.
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  • The Pianist is his second work that is of a large size.
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  • His third is Desperate Man, which is made of 54,000 matches and took a year and a half to make.
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  • Horvat has shown his works in galleries in Croatia, including the capital Zagreb.
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  • But they are not, for now, available to buy.
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  • I'm Gregory Stachel.
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  • Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects.
  • 2
  • A matchstick is the short, thin piece of wood that is used to make matches for lighting fire.
  • 3
  • 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.
  • 4
  • 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.
  • 5
  • 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.
  • 6
  • "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."
  • 7
  • 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.
  • 8
  • Sculptures that size would collapse without a supporting structure. He creates this additional structure from a material called papier-mâché or wood.
  • 9
  • 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.
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  • Horvat has shown his works in galleries in Croatia, including the capital Zagreb. But they are not, for now, available to buy.
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  • I'm Gregory Stachel.
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  • Antonio Bronic reported this story for Reuters. Gregory Stachel adapted it for VOA Learning English.
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  • Words in This Story
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  • piano - n. a large musical instrument with a keyboard that you play by pressing black and white keys and that produces sound when small hammers inside the piano hit steel wires
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  • string - n. a long, thin piece of twisted thread that you use to attach things, tie things together, or hang things
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  • character - n. a person who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or television show
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  • gallery - n. a room or building in which people look at paintings or sculptures