Caio Marcolini’s fascination with natural techniques started merely sufficient. It was “the trail left by the sea on the sand, the intertwined roots of trees within the forest, (and) the flowers falling from trees” that he discovered enchanting. However then, when his first little one was born in 2021, he started investigating how these identical winding, looping, knotted patterns appeared contained in the physique.
What resulted is a sequence of roving sculptures woven with skinny strips of brass, copper, and iron wire. Hole tubes emerge from delicate bell-like varieties secured to a wall, whereas occasional, lengthy drips drop from the higher space and dangle mid-air.
Educated as a goldsmith, Marcolini incorporates jewelry-making methods and industrial design ideas into his painstaking, totally hand-powered course of. Utilizing a mallet, dowels, and varied guide instruments, the Brazilian artist creates a wonderfully uniform mesh that he then shapes into supple, rounded varieties. “I rarely draw—just small sketches—and most of the time, I imagine a shape using initial parameters,” he says. “The compositions are made in an exploratory way, fluid and organic, as I weave the structure and experiment on the studio wall. I can say it’s a very intuitive process.”
Because the artist sees it, these particular person, linked metallic items are like single cells or DNA that repeat many times, spawning new varieties. Whereas distinct in form, the sculptures are nonetheless malleable, clear, and summary. The works resemble the circuitous techniques discovered within the human physique, but in addition the creatures present in forests and oceans, and occupy a form of ambiguous, hybrid house.
Marcolini titles his collections with phrases like colony, system, captured, and bilateral. Referencing the connection between single parts and the bigger complete, every physique of labor turns into a form of neighborhood of organisms that appear to tackle a lifetime of their very own. Moderately than impose a specific interpretation, the artist leaves the precise type of the works open-ended, as if they could morph into new life at any second.
Not Each Repetition is a Return, Marcolini’s solo exhibition, is on view by means of Could 23 at Galeria Lica Pedrosa in São Paulo. Discover extra of his work on his web site and Instagram.
