{"id":269,"date":"2025-05-09T07:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:59:52","slug":"caio-marcolini-weaves-delicate-metal-mesh-into-spawning-cellular-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Caio Marcolini Weaves Delicate Metal Mesh into Spawning Cellular Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Caio Marcolini<\/a>\u2019s fascination with organic systems began simply enough. It was \u201cthe trail left by the sea on the sand, the intertwined roots of trees within the forest, (and) the flowers falling from trees\u201d that he found enchanting. But then, when his first child was born in 2021, he began investigating how these same winding, looping, knotted patterns appeared inside the body.<\/p>\n

What resulted is a series of roving sculptures woven with thin strips of brass, copper, and iron wire. Hollow tubes emerge from delicate bell-like forms secured to a wall, while occasional, long drips drop from the upper area and dangle mid-air.<\/p>\n

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Trained as a goldsmith, Marcolini incorporates jewelry-making techniques and industrial design principles into his painstaking, entirely hand-powered process. Using a mallet, dowels, and various manual tools, the Brazilian artist creates a perfectly uniform mesh that he then shapes into supple, rounded forms. \u201cI rarely draw\u2014just small sketches\u2014and most of the time, I imagine a shape using initial parameters,\u201d he says. \u201cThe 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\u2019s a very intuitive process.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the artist sees it, these individual, linked metal pieces are like single cells or DNA that repeat again and again, spawning new forms. While distinct in shape, the sculptures are still malleable, transparent, and abstract. The works resemble the circuitous systems found in the human body, but also the creatures found in forests and oceans, and occupy a sort of ambiguous, hybrid space.<\/p>\n

Marcolini titles his collections with words like colony, system, captured, and bilateral. Referencing the relationship between single components and the larger whole, each body of work becomes a sort of community of organisms that seem to take on a life of their own. Rather than impose a particular interpretation, the artist leaves the exact form of the works open-ended, as if they might morph into new life at any moment.<\/p>\n

Not Every Repetition is a Return<\/em>, Marcolini\u2019s solo exhibition, is on view through May 23 at Galeria Lica Pedrosa<\/a> in S\u00e3o Paulo. Find more of his work on his website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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