Marco Giordano

Rather than presenting viewers with works to observe, Marco Giordano (born in Turin in 1988, studied at the Academy of Venice, now based in Glasgow) creates situations that the public must engage with. These are often ‘mimetic’ interventions, such as the kinetic sculptures suspended in the interior spaces of Malpensa airport in 2024, or the horizontal signage traced in 2022 on the runway at the top of the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. More subdued but no less evocative are the sculptures made from lava and volcanic stone, the installations of shells from which streams of foam flow, and the installations of sound flowers (the audio is based on the imperceptible noise produced by water as it flows through the ‘body’ of plants). This research speaks without rhetoric about themes such as ‘the boundary between the organic and the technological’ and ‘the mutual influence between humans and the environments they inhabit’.

Stefano Castelli