Marcela Cabutti is a contemporary sculptor who creates carefully crafted pieces. Her works engage with the particularities of space, reconfiguring it based on the direct relationship she finds with her surroundings. She works from an understanding of knowledge, her experience and intuition, giving shape to constructions that refer to architectural structures, as well as glass installations that find their inspiration in organic forms such as raindrops.
Her pieces – although they partially modulate a known language – stand on their own as new worlds, as unprecedented formations crossed by concepts and affections that come from her, but at the same time exceed her, becoming independent of who experienced them to acquire a life of their own. Her forms and materials raise countless questions.
The materials she uses are open to the public – the brick is visible, the glass is translucent or coloured – and it is also true that some of the pieces find their closest reference in architecture – we easily recognise arches and columns – but even so, the formal composition of these works appears to us to be obstinate and somewhat indiscernible, as if they were slipping into another time and space that does not quite fit into our contemporary world. Her works are influenced by great architects such as Eladio Dieste and Louis Kahn, as well as by large industries such as Cristalería San Carlos and the Ctibor brick factory, with whom she maintains a direct relationship, exchanging practices and skills.
Bio
Marcela Cabutti studied at the National University of La Plata where she received a degree in Sculpture and a degree in Art History. Between 1995 and 1996, she participated in the Taller de Barracas (sculpture, installation and objects) directed by Luís F. Benedit and Pablo Suárez with the support of the Antorchas Foundation. This same Foundation supported her studies for a Master’s in Design and Bionics at the Centro di Ricerche Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy, as well as her residency during 1998-1999 at the Delfina Studio Trust, in London, England. In 2000, she received a scholarship from the Médicis Foundation to participate in the Artists’ Residency at Duende Studios, Rotterdam, Holland, and that same year she participated in a program initiated by the Centro Cultural Recoleta to do a residency at the Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio, United States) working in blown glass, an experience she had already begun years before with the artist Pino Signoretto in Murano, Venice. Since 2013-2014 she is the General Coordinator for the Brick Museum of the Artists’ Residence, of the Art and Industry program, Espacio Ctibor Foundation, in La Plata, Argentina.