• Raiz - Carbono Galeria
  • Raiz - Carbono Galeria
  • Raiz - Carbono Galeria
  • Raiz - Carbono Galeria
  • Raiz - Carbono Galeria
  • Raiz - Carbono Galeria

Caio Marcolini

“Source”

Source

(SKU. 12944)

  • Date

    2024
  • Technique

    oxidized brass wire weave
  • Dimensions

    (H x W x D) 90 x 25 x 30 cm
  • Edition

    15 + 3PA

  • Comes with certificate of authenticity


"Woven metal, transparent organisms, soft structures. The attempt to describe Caio Marcolini's sculptural production — through the combination of apparently disparate terms — reveals the multivalent nature of the works.

A structure, which is initially rigid, is made flexible through the technique of its production: metal wires intertwined by the artist (who builds the tools himself) give shape to objects that resemble both human organs and an association of organisms.

'Raiz' is one of these works: it seems to inhabit the walls, as if it were extracting a kind of sap from them. The braiding of threads makes it possible to see its interior, revealing the void, filled with air, which gives it shape and structure.

Apparently contradictory elements can, in this case, become a tangle of meanings that not only refuse an easy interpretation, but open up possibilities — semantic and sensorial — that concern the multiple relationships between bodies, not necessarily human."

Mariana Leme, curator.

Works from Caio Marcolini

Biography

Caio Marcolini - Carbono Galeria

Caio Marcolini

b. 1985, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil | Lives and works in the city of Porto, Portugal.

He is a visual artist, graduated in Industrial Design from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 2012) and a technician in Goldsmithing from SENAI (Rio de Janeiro, 2007), both in Brazil. His research lies between the material and the ethereal, and is directed towards the creation of objects whose metal structure is conceived using tools developed by the artist himself.

Participated in group exhibitions such as: "Big Mama Thornton" (Gallery Nosco - London - United Kingdom, 2023), "Time is a child at play" (The Little Collector / Carbon Gallery - SP - Brazil, 2023), "Holiday Camp" (Plato Gallery - Évora - Portugal, 2023), "Hearts On Fire" (A Homem Mau / Plato - Lisbon - Portugal, 2023), "| fɛmɪnɪn |" (Gallery Nosco - Brussels - Belgium, 2023), "Summer Exhibition 2022" (Chrysalid Gallery, Rotterdam - Netherlands, 2022); "Viva Brasil!" (College of Arts of the University of Coimbra - Coimbra - Portugal, 2022); "Toll of Myself - Focus Brazil" (Not a Museum - Lisbon - Portugal, 2021); "Reality Check: Life After Retirement" (Espaço Espelho d'Água - Lisbon - Portugal, 2020); "What Let Joy Bloom" (Galeria Sete, Coimbra, Portugal, 2020); "We Were Never Anything" - First Rejected Art Biennial (Galeria Los14, Mexico, 2018); 42nd Ribeirão Preto Art Salon (Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017); 45th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon (Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017); and "Through the Weave", curated by Marcus Lontra (HAG – Home Art Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, 2016).

Marcolini was a student at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, under the supervision of artist Anna Bella Geiger, curator Fernando Cocchiarale, and professor Charles Watson.

Representative galleries

AM Gallery , São Paulo

Gallery NOSCO , Belgium