Caio Marcolini’s fascination with natural techniques started merely sufficient. It was “the path left by the ocean on the sand, the intertwined roots of timber inside the forest, (and) the flowers falling from timber” 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 collection of roving sculptures woven with skinny strips of brass, copper, and iron wire. Hole tubes emerge from delicate bell-like types secured to a wall, whereas occasional, lengthy drips drop from the higher space and dangle mid-air.
Skilled as a goldsmith, Marcolini incorporates jewelry-making strategies and industrial design ideas into his painstaking, completely hand-powered course of. Utilizing a mallet, dowels, and varied handbook instruments, the Brazilian artist creates a wonderfully uniform mesh that he then shapes into supple, rounded types. “I hardly ever draw—simply small sketches—and more often than not, I think about a form utilizing preliminary parameters,” he says. “The compositions are made in an exploratory approach, fluid and natural, as I weave the construction and experiment on the studio wall. I can say it’s a really intuitive course of.”
Because the artist sees it, these particular person, linked metallic items are like single cells or DNA that repeat repeatedly, spawning new types. Whereas distinct in form, the sculptures are nonetheless malleable, clear, and summary. The works resemble the circuitous techniques discovered within the human physique, but additionally 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 entire, every physique of labor turns into a form of neighborhood of organisms that appear to tackle a lifetime of their very own. Quite than impose a selected interpretation, the artist leaves the precise type of the works open-ended, as if they may morph into new life at any second.
Not Each Repetition is a Return, Marcolini’s solo exhibition, is on view via Might 23 at Galeria Lica Pedrosa in São Paulo. Discover extra of his work on his website and Instagram.
