A Bird
created: 18. 03. 2021 12:16 modified: 05. 05. 2021 07:42








The photo shows a bird made of scrap metal. The author is the artistic blacksmith Ivan Šarközy from the village Dunajská Lužná. The photos were taken during the European Roma Blacksmith Symposium in 2014. The artistic blacksmith was thinking about how to use scrap metal. The first model was made of cardboard. The blacksmith creates similar artifacts from scrap metal.
Ivan Sarkozy was born into the family with smithing ingrained in its history. In Dunajska Luzna he works in their family blacksmithery. His professional education is the ship mechanic, the profession he never worked in. He is fully dedicated to the smithing, especially smithcraft. His hobby is creation of iron sculptures made of iron scrap.
author: Ivan Šarközy
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
category: Crafts
tags: active modern artistic metal smithery Ivan Šarközy general audience internal