“Alberto Cavalieri (Caracas, 1969) is today one of the most prolific and renowned sculptors in the Venezuelan art scene. His work is highly characteristic, marked as it is by the establishment of a visual and tactile play between the materials employed in the execution of the works, and the plastic possibilities it affords as a threedimensional form subjected to an aesthetic design. In this way, Cavalieri’s sculptures sustain a dynamic and sensorial relationship with the space around them, the space that penetrates them: they are lines-volumes that form curves, knots, spirals, sinuous segments, in a state of levity that contradicts the concreteness, the weight, and the hardness of the material in which the works are made, almost always solid iron and, more recently, stainless steel.”

“Cavalieri’s education as an industrial designer and his studies in mechanical engineering has supported most of his artistic proposal, which, because of the implications already mentioned, have made increased use of technological tools in their design and execution.

“The works in the series Pipelines closely follow Cavalieri’s work with sculptures of sinuous lines and knots, made in iron, where, with a great mastery of the technique, he is able to trick the eye and represent malleable shapes and unexpected points of balance. But in the
Pipelines Cavalieri introduces innovations that account for a playful aspect of the proposal. First, he abandons solid iron and works with stainless steel in hollow, tubelike segments. Cavalieri himself has emphasized that the introduction of a certain irreverent tone, related to
some discourses in contemporary art, is present in this series of works.”

“Technology, as we have mentioned, plays a dominant role in the achievement of these works and the attainment of their calculated equilibrium. For that, the artist uses a software program to design 50 parts, which he coded to build his own game of shapes that he could, thanks to the program, assemble and visualize in all their aspects.