Luo Daishi
As an explorer, from 2007 to 2016, Daishi Luo studied art design and metalworking art at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and Taiwan Huafan University. In 2015, she founded the Man-man studio to develop her Science & Technology Craftsmanship, and bring the oxidation growth and crystal growth technologies of copper to the metal trash for creation. Her works won the China National Arts Fund in 2017 and has been published in exhibitions, professional media magazines and awards at home and abroad.

Tan Zhipeng
Zhipeng Tan graduated from the China Academy of Art, signed by Gallery ALL, a partner of Man-man studio, and now based in Shanghai. He is good at integrating sculpture art with contemporary lifestyle, exploring the boundaries between design and art, and constantly thinking about the relationship and possibilities between crafts, design and art.
 

Man-man studio
Man-man studio was founded in 2015 by Daishi Luo and Zhipeng Tan. They are good at discovering material properties, and crazy about copper. They have kept developed their own craftsmanship, use material-creation thinking to explore the boundaries between design and art, and the relationship between materials, nature, and humans. In recent years, a series of explorations have been conducted on the theme of copper. Tan is good at lost wax casting, and Luo focuses on the study of copper growth art. Both explore the multiple life states of copper from a physical and chemical perspective. Each of them independently creates and integrates each other, exploring the multiple possibilities of matter in continuous experimentation and application.
Their creations are exhibited in leading exhibitions, galleries and institutions around the world, such as Design Miami Basel (US, CH), Collective New York (NY), Salon Art+Design (NY), Design Shanghai (CN), HOW. Art Museum (CN), Asian Art Exhibition (HK), Gree Coast Gallery (CN), etc., and supported by the National Art Foundation of China, the works are collected by art galleries and a number of private collectors.

Materials: Cast glass, cast copper
Dimension: 110 x 120 x 430mm,280 x 90 x 110mm,230 x 160 x 170mm

In spired by our research on wax-losing casting, the material conversion between wood, sculpture clay, plaster, wax, and glass fiber reinforced plastics has a very critical link structure, that is, SunMao. This Chinese Joints is the connection point between materials, but it is hidden in the process and disappears in the result. Therefore, we visualized the SunMao, which hidden in the lost wax casting, through ice and bananas, so as to explore the relationship between the material and the craft. And the pro nun ciation of banana is the same as "intersection" in Chinese, which is also the meaning of SunMao - Chinese Joints. At last, one question: is SunMao a method or a form of structure?