The exhibition offers a look at sculpture as a result of a complex engineering and artistic process. Visitors will learn why the works of Peter Clodt can be considered technological achievements of their time. Participants will enjoy an exciting immersion into the behind-the-scenes of monumental sculpture of the 19th century. Using the legacy of Peter Clodt - a famous sculptor and foundryman - guests will understand how large monuments were born: from the first sketches and models to the most complex processes of casting and finishing. Visitors will find out what technologies were used a century and a half ago and what has changed in working with metal today. Special attention at the exhibition will be given to casting, galvanoplasty, embossing, and chasing - the techniques that allowed Clodt to achieve astonishing precision and expressiveness. Through details, tools, and restored models, a portrait of the master emerges, for whom craftsmanship was a form of creativity, and experimentation was the driving force of the profession. A separate storyline of the exhibition is dedicated to lesser-known and lost works created not only from bronze but also from stone and proto-cement. The exhibition will also raise a broader question: where is the boundary between technique and art, and how society perceived the artist then - and perceives him today. Other exhibitions in St. Petersburg can be found on KUDAGO.