É pau / É pedra - Sergio / Camargo

From the 1970s onwards, marble became the almost exclusive material in Sergio Camargo's production. In particular, Carrara marble, whose smooth and homogeneous surface reacts in a singular way to light, is the central element in his research. It was in Alfredo Soldani's studio in Massa, Italy, close to the quarries, that the artist produced his medium and large-scale sculptures, maintaining direct contact with both the material and its origin.

Camargo worked with only a few geometric elements to develop his vocabulary. The square or the cylinder, when sectioned, articulated, and recombined, became structures capable of generating ever-renewed forms. By varying scale, grouping and the incidence of light, the artist established a continuous investigation into form. There is a rigorous constructive logic, but also room for the unexpected.