Marco Carofalo ART

The work of Martin Boyce and how he approaches his output is of important interest to me, as contains similarities to my practice. Much like my work, most of Boyce's since 2005 has been developed from Boyce’s discovery of a photograph of four concrete trees made by the French artists Joël and Jan Martel in 1925. From this base image, he started to observe a repeat pattern and developed his own language. This one schema has given birth to many projects and explores the landscape inside. This working with the inside and outside is a concept I explore in my own work, where the drawing of a tree not far from my London Met studio acts as the starting point where I explore many points of departure. I particularly like how this pattern directs into fragments and travels off the wall into the bounds of the gallery space floor. This is an approach I am exploring in my work as I consider more how I will configure my prints for the end of year show.

The above image is constructed from the negative space of my tree drawings, which then acts as a template to be used in my prints and explore how I introduce sculptural elements to my work. The tree acts as the raw material and goes through its own production process to produce other works. It acts as a link between the natural and synthetic and starts to mimic the angled and geometric forms in the outside environment of London.