Fighters #B_08 - QUAYOLA

Fighters #B_08 is a sculpture made from Carrara white marble using an algorithmically controlled robotic arm. This work continues Quayola’s exploration of sculptural heritage through new algorithmic gestures, drawing inspiration from Michelangelo’s Captives (1510-1530), a series of never-completed sculptures which became emblematic for the expressiveness embedded in their exposed process of creation. Quayola’s sculptures are also left unfinished, with the intent to document the actual logic and aesthetics of the process itself, which becomes the true subject of the artwork.

In Fighters the sculptural process does not document a human gesture but rather the non-human virtuosity of the algorithmically controlled robotic arm.

The figures embedded within the block of marble are derived from real human bodies of Greco-Roman wrestlers captured in motion using sophisticated 3D scanning systems.

Classical archetypes, the torsions and tensions of bodies, the dynamism of muscular force, and the complex interweaving of volumes become the raw source data for computational sculpting processes.

Custom material-removal algorithms control industrial robots that physically carve blocks of matter. While never completing the full original figure, new articulations of complex geometries emerge from the robotic gestures.

Quayola uses technology not as a tool but as a collaborator; the industrial robot replaces the artisan’s hand with the precision of algorithmically calculated paths. The digital geometries imprinted on the marble by a non-human hand reveal the tension between anthropic and technological elements, between the digital and the natural.

This project continues the collaboration between Quayola Studio and the historic marble quarries of Carrara “Successori Adolfo Corsi,” with the technical support of the robotic integration company Robotor.

Credits

sculpture by Quayola

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Produced by Quayola Studio

in collaboration with Cave Corsi, Carrara

CAM Design/Programming: Andrea Santicchia

Robotic Simulation and Milling: Robotor / TorArt

3D-Scanning: Digital Reality Lab

Fighters: Denys Sliusar, Georgi Angelov, Georgi Petrov

Marble Quarry: Successori Adolfo Corsi, Carrara

THANKS

Olivia, Giulio and Alessandro Corsi

Filippo Gargaglia and Borgo Prati