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SACRIFICIAL PATTERNS / READY CASTING

Digital
to
foundry.

From your sculpture file to a Ready Casting pattern for the foundry: M2DO handles digital development, 3D printing, assembly and finishing.

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INTERACTIVE STUDY / 01
Digital model of Benito Macerata’s heart sculpture

Preparing the 3D scene…

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The artwork’s geometry, divided into sections.

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From a sculpture by Benito Macerata. Illustrative 3D reconstruction; simulated materials.

SACRIFICIAL PATTERNS FOR SCULPTURE & ARTDiscover the processREADY CASTING
01 / FROM FORM TO MATERIAL

One artwork.
Three moments.

Geometry on screen. Sections on the workbench. A vision of the artwork in bronze.

Digital model of Benito Macerata’s heart sculpture
01 / DIGITALThe digital form
Hollow red sacrificial pattern sections of the heart sculpture on the workbench
02 / M2DOThe pattern takes shape
Illustrative bronze visualisation of Benito Macerata’s heart sculpture
03 / BRONZEA vision in bronze

Heart sculpture by Benito Macerata. Workshop pattern photographs; illustrative bronze setting.

02 / READY CASTING

Fewer steps.
More direct.

We produce the sacrificial pattern directly from the digital model. Reach the foundry without first making a traditional full-size model, a mould and a wax pattern.

How we workFrom small artworks to monumental sculpture

With a model and mould

  1. 01Full-size model
  2. 02Mould
  3. 03Wax
  4. 04Foundry

WITH M2DO

  1. 01Digital file
  2. 02M2DO patternREADY CASTING
  3. 03Foundry

M2DO prepares the pattern. The foundry casts and finishes the metal, following the agreed process.

03 / FOR PEOPLE WHO CREATE

Your vision.
Our craft.

Every artwork has a different starting point. Our work is to help it become material.

01

Artists & digital studios

Your practice, beyond the screen. We give your artwork’s digital model a physical form.

02

Contractors & architects

Complex sculptures and installations. We prepare the patterns and coordinate the handover to the foundry.

03

Commissioners & galleries

An artwork to bring to life. Together, we define the route from reference to production.

VOICES FROM THE WORKSHOP

The work remains
the artist’s.

How digital work meets craft experience: a conversation about the model and its transformation into an artwork.

“We do not take handwork away from the artist.”

Workshop images and video: Fonderia Versiliese.

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ART CASTING

Form meets
metal.

After the pattern, the foundry carries the form into metal.

After the pattern.

The M2DO pattern enters the artistic casting process. The foundry carries out the metal work.

Foundry images and video: Fonderia Versiliese.
INSIDE THE PROCESS

Inside the
workshop.

From the pattern to metal work, through the hands of the people who make the artwork.

Foundry and workshop images: Fonderia Versiliese.

THE NEXT PROJECT

Let’s start
with your idea.

A file, a maquette, an image. Tell us what you want to create.

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