Rino Banko: Cores
Rovinj-based sculptor Rino Banko, who graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka in 2018, works across visual art, sculpture and object design. Using traditional materials such as stone, wood, ceramics and metal, his focus lies in the very nature of those materials – their limits and their dialogue with form.
For the Materia installation he presented works from the Cores series, born of his sculptural reflections on time, erosion and the interplay of natural forces with the human hand. Here, stone is more than a substance – it is a trace, a record and an archive of changes that shape the world slowly, almost invisibly.
Banko interrupts that long process, opening the stone’s structure, exposing its inner layers and inserting a ceramic core – a new narrative point. “Stone constantly shapes me just as I shape it,” Rino says – and this mutual adjustment between artist and material is the foundation of his practice.
The Cores pieces in Materia form a spatial dialogue between time and form, between what is hidden and what is revealed – inviting slowness, observation and the quiet uncovering of essence.
