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\u201cThe mozzarella ciabatta, please,\u201d says London-based artist and sculptor Nick Aliberti<\/a> to the waiter at Golborne Deli, where we meet on a concerningly warm October afternoon. \u201cDo you want anything?,\u201d he asks me. \u201cI\u2019m okay, thank you.\u201d I\u2019ve already eaten. Nothing worth writing home about but that\u2019s neither here nor there. “On second thought, is it too early for a beer?\u201d I ask, to which Nick responds: \u201cNever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick Aliberti graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art in London last year. It was his graduate project, <\/span>A Growing Sculpture, <\/span><\/i>that caught my eye<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>Finding beauty in the discarded, Nick repurposes metal gathered from scrap yards across London. Using techniques including plasma cutting, corrosion, burning and bleaching, Nick considers intention and experimentation, creating abstract and evocative compositions of manipulated metalwork that fill spaces small and large.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His techniques are undoubtedly better suited to a workshop than a studio, making it quite difficult to practise without equipment, which, at current, he has no access to. In the meantime, he\u2019s been working collaboratively with Reference Point<\/a>, a specialist library, book shop and bar in London, on a book focusing on both his craft and his creative philosophy which toys with themes surrounding collection and the unearthed potential in all that we waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick is part of a generation of artists commenting on the climatic zeitgeist (even if somewhat accidentally) by innovatively utilising what already exists and therefore extending lifelines and practicing circularity. We need more of this, not just circularity but inherence; an undeliberate, subconscious and habitual better, where materials are not raw nor virgin but existing and ripe, ready and waiting to re-enter a circular design system. A better where conversations like these, which are fundamentally about sustainability, don\u2019t consider sustainability to be a concerted focus but a given.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, he\u2019s no angel. None of us are. And, some of his processes are energy intensive, but it\u2019s Nick\u2019s juxtaposition of the wasted and the beautiful; the old and the new; the meaningless and the meaningful that fascinates me. He puts this down to being a young person living in an urban jungle that is forested by skyscrapers and swamped with waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Waste is in an abundance. Materials are in an abundance. Really, there\u2019s no need for new. We just need to take a step back and reimagine. Nick\u2019s oeuvre proves it possible. Over a panini and a pint, I find out more\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":111084,"id":111084,"title":"","filename":"blue-test-4.jpg","filesize":262447,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-impact-review-on-waste-with-artist-nick-aliberti\/blue-test-4\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"blue-test-4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":111082,"date":"2023-10-22 23:02:42","modified":"2023-10-24 08:47:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1420,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1420,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1420,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1420,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4-1536x1136.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1136,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1420,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/blue-test-4.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1420}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Rose Dodd: Nick, you use discarded materials, specifically metal, for your sculptures. Where do you source your materials from?<\/p>\n

Nick Aliberti: During my foundation year at Camberwell [College of Arts, London], loads of the students would throw out these really interesting materials. I started thinking about if and how these materials could be reused, collecting and merging them together in weird ways whenever I could. I\u2019d pick up anything and everything to incorporate into my installations, from fireplaces to bathtubs and toilets. Then I started focusing on metal. Remnants and offcuts of steel from construction and factories might end up in these huge skips in scrap yards outside London. It might then go on to be recycled or it might not. I\u2019ll visit these sites, building up a rapport with the workers, then eventually, maybe, they\u2019ll allow me to look around their vast industrial plains where I\u2019ll climb into these enormous skips, just looking until I find the piece that suits my needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: And what are those needs? What are you looking for specifically?<\/p>\n

NA: It\u2019s often about the surface, sometimes about the shape. It\u2019s hard to say exactly but it\u2019ll speak to me. No piece is ever the same, they\u2019re very unique. Maybe they\u2019ve been out in the rain and they\u2019re encrusted with rust or they\u2019ve warped and bent. That\u2019s what I love about working with discarded metal as opposed to buying brand new metal, it\u2019s weathered and that makes it quite interesting to play with. I enjoy not knowing what I might find and, you know, not knowing if the site managers will even let me in. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: Why metal?<\/p>\n

NA: I find it really interesting structurally. Also, living in a city, everything around us is built with metal infrastructure and architecture which we rarely consider. I guess it makes me think about how things are made.<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: So, once you\u2019ve collected your materials, what\u2019s next? What is your design process?<\/p>\n

NA: Intervention, I suppose. Obviously, there are different modes and methods for this and different pieces require different treatments. Some pieces I cut with a plasma cutter, others I might weld together to create distinct shapes. A lot of it is about intentionally weathering the surface to create unusual patterns and textures. You can use acids to corrode metal surfaces. If you corrode copper, for example, it turns turquoise because of oxidation. This process happens to copper in nature too, I\u2019m just experimenting by accelerating it. Sometimes I just straight up paint surfaces; sometimes I burn them; rust them, you name it. Then, I\u2019ll have a collection of objects which each have different characteristics, and no two are ever the same\u2026 I\u2019ve tried but it never comes out the same [laughs]. I\u2019ll then structure them into this fluid and ever-growing composition that changes through different iterations as I continue to collect and experiment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":111087,"id":111087,"title":"","filename":"L1040768-co4py.jpg","filesize":433974,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-impact-review-on-waste-with-artist-nick-aliberti\/l1040768-co4py\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Image courtesy of Nick Aliberti.","name":"l1040768-co4py","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":111082,"date":"2023-10-22 23:03:08","modified":"2023-10-22 23:04:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1281,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1281,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1281,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1281,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py-1536x1025.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1025,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1281,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/L1040768-co4py.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1281}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

RD: These don\u2019t sound like traditional studio space techniques.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NA: Yes, it\u2019s more of a workshop situation. Now that I\u2019ve finished uni, creating like this is a little harder because I don\u2019t have a studio nor do I have a workshop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: Without a workshop, how do you work?<\/p>\n

NA: I have to plan my experimentation a lot more. I act less on a whim where before I might have been more spontaneous. Everything\u2019s smaller. I work on individual pieces. I feel like it\u2019s a lot more intimate. I also don\u2019t have the space to keep things so some of my work might go back to the dump where I found it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: Like releasing an animal back into the wild, having nurtured something that might have otherwise been lost. The beauty is in the discarded.<\/p>\n

NA: The end product is emotional and it\u2019s hard to part with. I want to elicit a visceral reaction and a curiosity. I want people to wonder and question: Where did this come from? How did you get this? How did you make this?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: We need to ask ourselves questions like these more often. It sounds like you\u2019re quite connected to your craft and with the objects and techniques that you use. Talk to me about connections.<\/p>\n

NA: I really enjoy going out to find my materials, discovering new places and talking to new people. There\u2019s a certain rush that comes from finding these objects and bringing them back. My work isn\u2019t only about looking interesting; it\u2019s also about the moment of discovery, visual impulsiveness and interactivity. Some of my larger sculptures, they take up space in a room; to me, there\u2019s something about having something in a room, a physical and tactile body of work, that you can walk around and interact with and react to. <\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":111086,"id":111086,"title":"","filename":"like-dis3.jpg","filesize":603760,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-impact-review-on-waste-with-artist-nick-aliberti\/like-dis3\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Image courtesy of Nick Aliberti.","name":"like-dis3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":111082,"date":"2023-10-22 23:03:03","modified":"2023-10-22 23:04:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1234,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":82,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1234,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1234,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1234,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3-1536x987.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":987,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1234,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/like-dis3.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1234}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

RD: You mentioned emotion and reaction. I imagine everyone\u2019s emotional response to your work differs. Something that really entices me is your re-use of waste, repurposing it into something quite abstract and thought provoking. We output waste in such excess, barely dwelling on it as we crave more and more.<\/p>\n

NA: The more you look, the more you see how much is thrown away. So much of this waste has potential for re-use. Living in a city is bizarre in the sense that you come into contact with a lot of this waste but at the same time, you\u2019re blind to it. A lot of waste is hidden away in the margins of the city. In the scrapyards, for example. We need to figure out ways to recover this waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: We do.<\/p>\n

NA: For me, it makes sense to use material that is already in existence. Not only to breathe new life into the discarded but also consider its history, context and story. Something that has had a life of its own has had time to mature and decay. Metal warps, scratches, scars and grows \u2013 I use this ageing as a springboard to work from.<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: I like the way you anthropomorphise your material. There\u2019s much to be said about this as a philosophy. I wonder what the waste landscape would look like if we valued objects differently, more humanly, where each thing has its own tale and past.<\/p>\n

NA: If we saw the environment as part of ourselves, maybe we\u2019d be less inclined to do things that harm it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: Which is easier said than done, especially in an urban landscape, bursting with industrialisation, material temptation \u2013 and, very little nature.<\/p>\n

NA: Exactly, I think this extends to the West in general. The way our lives are framed, how external and goal driven everything is. I do think that creativity can offer a space in which you can explore and relinquish the controls and stressors that separate us from nature and instinct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":111083,"id":111083,"title":"","filename":"potenssss-copy-2.jpg","filesize":345438,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/the-impact-review-on-waste-with-artist-nick-aliberti\/potenssss-copy-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Image courtesy of Nick Aliberti.","name":"potenssss-copy-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":111082,"date":"2023-10-22 23:02:34","modified":"2023-10-22 23:06:26","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1620,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","thumbnail-width":81,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","medium-width":1620,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","medium_large-width":1620,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","large-width":1620,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2-1296x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1296,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1620,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":10,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/potenssss-copy-2.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1620,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

RD: You mentioned luck with regards to gaining access to the metal you use. I like the idea of the negotiation and the collaboration involved in this process. I think collaboration is key to a greener future. What do you think?<\/p>\n

NA: At one particular scrapyard I went to, I heard a radio blaring from a shipping container so I went and knocked. A girl, probably in her twenties, answered the door in a lab coat. Turns out she was renting the container for her research on vertical farming. Relating this back to art, lots of students and artists\u2019 studios are in repurposed or abandoned office blocks and disused warehouses. This sort of collaboration, of wasted space and creativity, is really interesting. I can\u2019t remember who it was but someone said that every company in every industry should employ an artist or have an artist-in-residence because it will shift the framework. Then, in terms of collaborating with nature, it\u2019s just obvious that we should collaborate with nature, we\u2019ve learnt everything from it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: At what point did we forget that, I wonder. I recently read about psychodynamics, the interrelationship of parts of the mind and psyche as they relate to different forces, be that emotional, motivational or perhaps even physical. I feel like we could apply this to production, appreciating aesthetics in the process or in something\u2019s iterations as opposed to in its final form, which is relevant to your concept of an ever-growing or morphing sculpture.<\/p>\n

NA: Like valuing and appreciating things for the journey they\u2019ve been and continue on?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: Yes, exactly!<\/p>\n

NA: These days we\u2019re not really in tune with how things are made. Even like the iPhone, generally speaking we don\u2019t know how it works inside or where its individual components come from. I mean, you can research this but who does? [laughs] What we want is a slow burning relationship with our objects. Something that comes to mind here is the prospect of designing things that age well rather than that look good and age terribly. I feel like the more you know about something, the more connected you are to its roots. The more you cherish it and enjoy it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: I suppose I\u2019d like to know if the nuances we\u2019ve discussed were ever intended in your craft. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessarily the artists\u2019 onus to advocate sustainability, but it\u2019s interesting to see such undertones come through, even if by accident.<\/p>\n

NA: At art school, they don\u2019t necessarily promote the best philosophy in terms of creating sustainably. If you create anything, it\u2019s going to leave a mark. It\u2019s in your best interest as an individual to repurpose. Even from a pure financial point of view, you\u2019re wasting money if you\u2019re buying everything new. I never intended to make work that was centred around environmentalism. I think it\u2019s just the result of being interested in objects, collecting and contextualising things \u2013 and constantly being surrounded by waste.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RD: A product of the contemporary world in which we live where we are surrounded by waste. 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