Marco Carofalo ART

‘The nature of trees and grass is one thing, but there are many degrees of nature. Concrete can be nature. Interstellar spaces are also nature. There is human nature. In the city, you have to have a new nature. Maybe you have to create that nature.’ – Isamu Noguchi (1970) 

I went to see the Isamu Noguchi exhibition at White Cube to help me consider how I may display my final works as I have been allowing the work to inhabit the floor space and take on the form as an installation.

There is something I can gain from looking at the works as I sense a relation to mine in terms of the folded steel and how I may further develop my folded prints to allow them to stand on their own in the exhibition space.

The above work was an important piece to view as I was intrigued when I first entered the space. I could see two sculptures in the room with vast amounts of space between them. I then realised that the main work was situated on the ceiling. This altered my perception and helped me to consider how I may install my work in unconventional ways and at the same time responding to the space they find themselves in. I also connect with Noguchi’s concepts and making practice. Noguchi leverages materials of urbanisation and technology, using industrial methods to craft his work. The materials of technology interest me and make me contemplate how I use digital manipulation to craft my printmaking plates but more importantly when I’m investigating the pixelation…..could this be a type of material?  The industrial methods I’m using to fashion my work such as the cnc router have a resonance with the work here where process is a central factor in my work. I feel like I’m compiling an archive of the making activities I move my work through; the part of the exhibition which resonated with me in this sense was in an room where a documentary was being played but also in the room were vitrines displaying various paraphernalia. It made me think back to a comment made in one of my professional practice lectures concerning when does documentation become the work.