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Gentle venture
Polytype 72
Fourth Black
Gray surface
Blue call
Spatial concept, Waits, 7 cuts
Spatial, Waiting, Red concept
Structure n. 731
Horse and Rider
Wild Centaurea
Continuous serial
Landscape
Composition
Grey
G.D.4
Gentle venture
Polytype 72
Fourth Black
Gray surface
Blue call
Spatial concept, Waits, 7 cuts
Spatial, Waiting, Red concept
Structure n. 731
Horse and Rider
Wild Centaurea
Continuous serial
Landscape
Composition
Grey
G.D.4

Horse and Rider

Marino Marini

Displayed in:

MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

Viale Matteotti, 151, Imperia

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During the 1930s, Marino Marini gradually abandoned painting and graphics to devote himself to sculpture. He immediately defines the themes most dear to him: among these the horse and the rider are part of a series, to which the sculpture you see on display belongs, which will become one of the most emblematic lines of research for the artist. Marini explains that: «There is the whole history of humanity and nature in the figure of the rider and the horse, in every age. It's my way of telling the story. He is the character I need to give shape to the passion of man (…) ». This small sculpture probably belongs to the first tests of the Horse and Knight series, to which the sculptor has been dedicating himself since 1935. In fact, a single piece of chalk dates back to the same year, entitled Piccolo Cavaliere, which coincides with the bronze work that today we can admire it in the Invernizzi Collection. Marino Marini's unscrupulous inventive freedom reinterprets Etruscan-Roman antiquity in an expressionist key, giving life to an archaic classicism stripped of any kind of monumentalism, typical of the thirties and forties. Marini completely overturns the classic concept of an equestrian statue: the two figures in fact appear joined to represent a primordial symbiotic unity between human and animal. Over the years, the horse and the rider become increasingly dissolved forms and almost expressionist tragic figures.
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Title: Horse and Rider

Author: Marino Marini

Date: 1940

Technique: Bronze

Displayed in: MACI - Museum of Contemporary Art of Imperia

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