Caio Marcolini’s fascination for natural methods began sufficiently. It was “the route left by the sand, the braided roots of the timber within the forest, (and) the flowers that fall from the timber” that he discovered charming. However then, when his first little one was born in 2021, he started to analyze how the identical snapped fashions appeared, loops, knotted contained in the physique.
What resulted is a collection of sculptures that rise woven with skinny strips of brass, copper and iron wire. The empty tubes come out of delicate types much like the bell, mounted on a wall, whereas often, lengthy leaks fall from the higher space and throw in the course of the air.
Skilled as a gold, Marcolini incorporates jewellery manufacturing strategies and industrial design rules in its painful, totally fed course of. Utilizing a pea, dowels and varied handbook devices, the Brazilian artist creates a superbly uniform mesh that then shapes in supple, rounded shapes. “I hardly ever draw – solely small sketches – and more often than not, I think about a form utilizing the preliminary parameters,” he says. “The compositions are made in an exploratory, fluid and natural means, as they weave the construction and expertise on the studio wall. I can say it’s a very intuitive course of.”
Because the artist sees, these particular person steel elements are associated as distinctive cells or DNA which are repeated time and again, creating new shapes. Though it’s in a definite kind, the sculptures are nonetheless malleable, clear and summary. The works resemble the circuit methods discovered within the human physique, but in addition to the creatures present in forests and oceans and occupy a sort of ambiguous, hybrid area.
Marcolini titrates his collections with phrases similar to colony, system, captured and bilateral. Referring the connection between distinctive elements and the entire largest, every work physique turns into a sort of neighborhood of organisms that appear to guide their very own life. As a substitute of imposing a sure interpretation, the artist leaves the precise type of open works, as if it might be reworked into a brand new life at any time.
Not each repetition is a returnMarcolini’s solo exhibition is considered till Could 23 on the Lica Pedrosa Gallery in São Paulo. Discover extra of his work on his web site and Instagram.
