Caio MarcoliniThe fascination of organic systems started simple enough. It was “the path left by the sea on the sand, the intertwined roots of trees in the forest, (s) the flowers that fall out of trees” that he found enchanting. But when his first child was born in 2021, he started to investigate how the same winding, looping, knotted patterns appeared in the body.
What resulted is a series of roaming sculptures woven with thin strips of brass, copper and iron wire. Hollow tubes stem from delicate bell-like shapes that are attached to a wall, while occasionally long drops fall from the upper area and the mid-air.
Marcolini, trained as a goldsmith and records techniques for making jewelry and industrial design principles in his meticulous, fully hand -driven process. With the help of a hammer, plugs and various manual tools, the Brazilian artist creates a perfect uniform mesh that he then forms in flexible, rounded shapes. “I rarely draw – only small sketches – and usually I imagine a form with the help of initial parameters,” he says. “The compositions are made in an exploratory way, fluent and organic, because I weave the structure and experiment on the studio wall. I can say that it is a very intuitive process.”
As the artist sees, these individual, linked metal pieces are such as individual cells or DNA that repeat themselves again and again, producing new forms. Although distinguished in shape, the sculptures are still malleable, transparent and abstract. The works are similar to the cumbersome systems found in the human body, but also the beings found in forests and oceans, and occupy a kind of ambiguous, hybrid space.
Marcolini titles are collections with words such as colony, system, captured and bilateral. Referring to the relationship between individual components and the larger whole, each oeuvre becomes a kind of community of organisms that seem to live a life of its own. Instead of imposing a certain interpretation, the artist leaves the exact form of the works open, as if they can turn into a new life at any time.
Not every repetition is a returnMarcolini’s Solo exhibition, can be seen until May 23 to Galeria Lica Pedrosa In São Paulo. Find more of his work His website And Instagram.
