Nyt, 'Michelangelo who? Robots break into the sculpture '

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 15 - Robots break into the world of art, more precisely in that of sculpture, where - reports the New York Times - many of the contemporary artists who use these technologies to create their works ask mechanical arm operators to keep their identities secret.

    Today the US newspaper dedicates a long article - entitled "Michelangelo who? Robots break into sculpting" (Michelangelo who? Robots break into sculpture) - to this new trend and publishes on the front page the image of one of these giants, named ABB2, at work in a Carrara laboratory to create a statue "commissioned by a famous American artist".

    But ABB2, a robot almost four meters high, is just one of many: in another laboratory a few meters away, continues the Nyt, Quantek2 works on another block of marble to create a work commissioned this time by an "artist. British".

    If hundreds of years ago many artists and craftsmen worked in the shadows to create the works of the great masters who then signed the masterpieces, today this role is played by robots.

    Among the customers who can be mentioned by name and surname, the newspaper cites the Italian Vanessa Beecroft and the Americans Jeff Koons and Barry X Ball, pioneer of 3D scanning technology, which makes extensive use of computers and numerical control machines for create his masterpieces. (HANDLE).