In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

在工作室:迈克尔·维索基

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-01-20

26 分钟
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In an old schoolroom in the Scottish Highlands, sculptor Michael Visocchi is working on Commensalis, a huge work that will be installed thousands of miles away, in Grytviken, an abandoned whaling station on the Antarctic island of South Georgia. Whaling ships and equipment were taken Grytviken and assembled there. Now it is an industrial scrapyard; ships rust on the shore, huge tanks decay and millions of left over rivets remain. Visocchi was struck by the similarity of shape of these rivets and the bumps of the barnacles on the bodies of living whales.Visocchi talks to presenter Julian May as he works on this project which is challenging in so many ways. South Georgia has no permanent population, so is a public artwork appropriate?
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  • Welcome to the documentary in the Studio from the BBC World Service.

  • Hello, I'm Julian May and the studio we're going to be in belongs to the sculptor Michael Visocchi.

  • Michael was the youngest artist to be made a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and he's a winner of the prestigious Jerwood Sculpture Prize.

  • When I arrive, he's working on a very ambitious and lengthy project.

  • He had the idea five years ago and it's still a long way from completion.

  • The the work is called Commensalis.

  • Don't worry, we'll explain what that means.

  • And it will be seven round, rust brown steel tables, each five meters across, dotted with shiny rivets.

  • The significance of those will become clear too.

  • This is mild steel cut.

  • This flat bar here.

  • Michael's studio is full of industrial equipment, machine tools, welding gear.

  • It's on the edge of the Cairngorm Mountains in the northeast of Scotland.

  • The site of the sculpture is some way off, 7890 miles away at Gritviken, an abandoned whaling station on the island of South Georgia.

  • Michael, you've got this sophisticated and frankly, alarming machinery in your studio.