Calamina, tabula rasa 5 | Marco Cordero

Book, oxide, steel

2025

98 x 70 x 19 cm

The main element of Marco Cordero's sculptures is a book, a real book, which the artist appropriates, but reworks: hollowed out, burned, torn from its function as a book. In his work, the book becomes a living organism, an assemblage of materials which, thanks to their combination, acquire a vital structure. In this series of works, Marco Cordero binds the destiny of his books to rock, stone and marble. This combination gives rise to surprising hybrids: books as rocks or rocks as books.
Cordero's works manifest themselves as open zones, narrating shadows of words and profound meanings. The almost illegible books become both material and means of expression, with evocative titles suggesting the infinite nuances and ambiguities of language.