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Carl
recently completed the North
Carolina Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
“HEROISM & SACRIFICE”
Remembering their dedication,
Honoring their sacrifices
by Carl W. Regutti
Dedicated
May 6, 2006 Located in the center of historic Nash Square, Raleigh
NC, the total Memorial is 50 feet diameter. The central sculpture “Heroism & Sacrifice” is
comprised of four life-size bronze firefighters in a realistic
action collapsed building fatal fire scene, uniquely the first
time such has been created in a large prestigious memorial. One
firefighter is dying, having been crushed by a fallen I-beam;
a comrade is holding the fallen firefighter’s head and
calling for help; another firefighter is struggling to lift off
the heavy I-beam; and the fourth firefighter is using an attack
hose to keep the fire away from the rest of the team. Their realistic
facial expressions add to the intense drama and impact of this
unique Memorial. Designed for 360 degrees viewing, wherever a
visitor stands, a face of at least one firefighter is always
visible. The sculpture is also lighting engineered for night-time
fire effects. Surrounding this central masterpiece sculpture
is a brick wall with granite slabs on which is engraved the names
of all North Carolina’s fallen firefighters, past, currently
and will also have those fallen in future centuries …thus
becoming a “living memorial”. This special Memorial
is a “team development” of many people, companies
and organizations …and was approved unanimously by the
prestigious State Historic Commission and has already been recognized
nationwide.
Award
winning wildlife sculptor Carl Regutti will be forging his
artistic talents to help save one of the world's most captivating
animals - the endangered tiger. Mr. Regutti will be creating
the life-size bronze monument destined to be the centerpiece
for the Zoe Foundation's new preserve - Paleocene Park™.
At left Mr. Regutti puts the finishing touches on the tiger
bas-relief sculpture Survival At
Risk, the sculpture he designed for the foundation's
International fund raiser.
Carl
Regutti's works-of-art are of international scope - collected
in North America, Europe and Asia. Regutti is an extremely versatile
sculptor with talents ranging from ultra-realism to abstract.
He creates art from monumental size to miniatures in classic
bronze, pure silver, ceramics, stone, and polymerics such as
bonded marble. His prize winning sculptures range widely... wildlife,
western & rodeo, equestrian, human portraiture, and corporate
images. He has successfully created sculptural art projects and
memorials costing $500,000.
Carl
is especially known for "realistic action" scenes,
such as his masterpiece sculpture "Speed & Power Unleashed",
a cougar leaping through the air chasing a whitetail deer,
or "River Frolic", an underwater scene of a mother
North American river otter and her young chasing a brook trout.
This life size bronze nested among concrete rocks is featured
at a renowned zoological park. His "Saving Life" bronze
is an artistic close-up of a cardiovascular surgeon's hands
working on critical open heart surgery. Carl's famous equine
life-size bronze of Aristides, Winner of the first Kentucky
Derby in 1875, is the centerpiece at historic Churchill Downs.
His dramatic and unique "Heroism & Sacrifice",
a life-size bronze, granite/concrete monumental art honoring
North Carolina's fallen firefighters, is a dynamic action scene
of four firefighters working under severe stress in a hazardous
collapsed building fire.
Carl
Regutti's talents evolve from a family background of artists
in Europe and America. Blending his earlier scientific career
in environmental microbiology, chemistry and engineering, and
international business management, his creativity is not only
in art but in technology as well. Mr. Regutti was awarded patents
in germ killing paper products, in wood rot control, and in
pollution control of steel mill hydrocarbon emissions. This
very unique combination of skills accelerated Carl's successful
career of the past twenty years as a full-time professional
sculptor, dedicating much of his time to our world's wildlife
heritage.
A
successful example of Carl's blending of art and science to benefit
wildlife was his project with The Franklin Mint, the first time
the Mint decided to combine porcelain and bronze in an art sculpture.
They commissioned Carl to sculpt and engineer an innovative "Japanese
Crane" for worldwide marketing. This led Carl to create
a life-size, six foot high Japanese red crown crane (similar
to the endangered whooping crane) bronze sculpture called "Bird
of Happiness".
Mr.
Regutti was the founder of the North Carolina Nature Artists
Association and the Society of Nature Artists. President George
Bush owns Regutti's American Pride & Power. Carl has been
commissioned by prestigious companies and organizations including:
Walt Disney, Santa Anita Park, the Franklin Mint, the US Air
Force, the Cleveland Zoo, American Airlines, NationsBank, Seagram & Sons,
Pillsbury, Glaxo, John Deere, Burroughs Wellcome, Duke University,
the NC College of Veterinary Medicine, DeBartolo, the Town
of Cary, Rotary International, and more. Mr. Regutti has been
a frequent exhibitor at the world's largest wildlife festival
- the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, South
Carolina. In 2002 each of the families who lost a firefighter
in 9/11 along with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other notable dignitaries
were presented one of Mr. Regutti's sculptures.
The
Zoe Foundation, with vital projects developed to save the tiger,
is the focus of Carl Regutti's talents.
Regutti
art is in permanent museum collections which include:
- The
Franklin Mint Museum, Franklin, PA
- NC
State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
- Kentucky
Derby Museum, Louisville, KY
- The
Horse Park Museum, Lexington, KY
- Bahlsen
Museum, Hannover, Germany
Other
accomplishments:
- Holder
of four US patents
- Innovated
pre-cast terrazzo monumental sculpture art
- Founder
of Society of Nature Artists (Cleveland Ohio)
- Founder
of North Carolina Nature Artists Association
- Chairman,
Public Art Advisory Board for the town of Cary, NC
