Leo Santana is a
brazilian sculptor, who works with marble, concrete, and, most famously,
bronze castings. His most famous
sculptures are life-sized statues and monuments, fifteen of them are displayed across 5
Brazilian cities (and one in
Washington DC). They are of familiar figures, at ease and at street level, and all invite a certain interaction.
Making bronzes is highly skilled work, and a number of distinct casting processes may be employed, including
lost-wax casting (and its modern-day spin-off investment casting), sand casting and centrifugal casting. It is one of man's earliest technologies dating back over 6000 years, and remains a 'low tech, high-skill' method.
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