chiara corbelletto
Hybrid Encounter 1, 2020
Polypropylene: white 5 mm, grey and blue 1.9mm
1650 x 1520 x 1200mm
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Hybrid Encounter 2, 2020
Polypropylene, white 5mm
1100 x 1150 x 1100mm
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Hybrid Encounter 3, 2020
Polypropylene: white 5mm, grey 1.9mm
970 x 650 x 650mm
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Rosette, 2020
Polypropylene, blue and grey 1.9mm
500 x 500 x 1200mm
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Configuration 1, 2020
Polypropylene, blue and grey 1.9mm
520 x 520 x 280mm
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Configuration 2, 2020
Polypropylene, blue and grey 1.9mm
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Hybrid Encounters 2020 is situated in a unique part of the trail - an ecosystem of swamp cypresses and waterlilies. Hybrid Encounters 2020 presents eight configurations of different sizes and shapes that are suspended from and attached to the branches and trunks of the swamp cypresses and large Blackwoods at the water's edge.
Corbelletto’s installation is transformed by this particular luscious environment and it is as if there is a new species that has evolved in the forest. The sculptural nets share structural similarities with the organic structures of types of fungi which grow nearby.
Corbelletto generates these sculptures with the same single component replicated and assembled to form different aggregations. It is a language from simplicity to complexity that echoes the process employed by nature to generate an infinite number of variations.
Hybrid Encounters suggests an ambiguous yet at the same time strangely connected relationship with the natural environment. These works are part of an extensive project called Coherent Permutations which focus on the evolution of a single form into a system of interrelated configurations. These can appear at once both highly symmetric and yet biomorphic and free-form. Corbelletto’s work has an abstracted futuristic style which she uses to explore philosophical, scientific and artistic notions.
“Overall the project reflects on how complexity can arise from simplicity, how diversity evolves from singularity and how small modifications can create evolutionary adaptations.”
This is the second iteration of Chiara Corbelletto’s Hybrid Encounters installation. The first was commissioned for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 and hung in the glass Cuningham House conservatory in the Botanic Gardens Christchurch.
Hybrid Encounters was nominated by the Italian Embassy to represent New Zealand in Giornata del Contemporaneo – Contemporary Art Day 2020. This initiative is in its 15th year and is hosted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums (AMACI).
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