Chicken Wire Sculptures By Shi Jindian

Chinese artist Shi Jindian creates such amazing 3D sculptures just using a usual chicken wire. Chinese artist Shi Jindian made also a wire frame replica the Chiangjiang 750, a Chinese knock-f a the classic BMW R71 motorcycle.
Shi Jindian’s sculptures are made steel, yet they are light, transparent, almost ethereal. After searching for years for “a material that was brand new, completely untraditional”, he settled on steel wires. By trial and error, he learned how to crochet the two-dimensional strands into three-dimensional forms, using tools his own devising. His wire meshes start out as wrappings around some common object. When the mesh is complete, Shi Jindian destroys or extracts the object, leaving only its steel exoskeleton. The result, he says, is a kind fiction, a virtual reality that can be walked around and touched. Surrealist René Magritte painted a pipe along with the words: “This is not a pipe.” Shi Jindian does something similar in sculpture, making not-quite-replicas items from musical instruments to machines.