• Marino Marini



  • Guerriero, 1956-57
    Bronze mit schwarzer und grüner Patina, 83,8 x 111,8 cm.
  • Cavallo e cavaliere, 1949
    Tempera, Gouache, bürste, Stift und India Tine auf Papier, 61,5 x 43 cm.

Biography

Horse and rider are Marino Marini's main theme. For Marini, the connection between horse and human is an expression of the mythical in contrast to everyday reality. Beauty and ruin, bravery and defeat, victory and self-assertion collide. After the painful experiences of the war, this constellation becomes the model for his world view, which turns tragic: the worried, rearing horses with their falling riders are Marini's symbol for the precarious existence of man, the rider spreading his arms is the ruler on uncertain ground. In sculpture, the figurative becomes an abstraction of violent, but jagged, inharmonious movements full of destructive energy, legs pointing upwards, which, a paradox that is often encountered, nevertheless generates an important art form. In the tempera work from 1949, the horse is depicted statically, the falling rider combines all energies in and on himself, as a figure on the back he implies even more power and impact, which is reinforced by the leg rising at an angle: fate becomes form.

The work from 1955, on the other hand, shows the inner and outer relationship between horse and rider, a relationship whose emotionality becomes manifest in the multi-layered, dramatically agitated painterly treatment of the pictorial surroundings. Marino Marini, Guerriero The warrior is also a universal image in art history, and a projection surface for beliefs, virtues, and ideologies. Here the horse has buckled, it turns its head back towards the warrior rider, who lies frozen over its body. In the angular, cubic shapes, both bodies merge into an emotional unity. Marini's riders represent man's embeddedness in nature, which he can only partially control, if at all. Marini thinks of the indissoluble, the whole of creation, and that every end is also a new beginning.

Painting has always fascinated me when it is filled with light. But for me painting is also much more: it is that foreground of the infinitely deep and black space in which light and color have become inseparably one. The identity of light and color, which becomes visible in the spectrum, is the subject of my painting - it is its only subject.

Marino Marini, 1958 ©Photo, Paolo Monti Foundation; Quote, R. Weiss / Archive Mack

Exhibitions

Museum and single exhibitions (selection)

2024

Art and Fascism, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Frisbee! Sports and Leisure. Würth Collection, Musée Würth France, Erstein, France

2023

Uffizi’s self-portraits, Uffizi, Florence, Italy
1,5 Grad, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2022

La Collezione Brandi Rubiu, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM), Rome, Italy

2021

Wild/Schön. Tiere in der Kunst, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany

2020

Momat Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan

2019

Geheimnisvolle Musen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

2018

Marino Marini: Visual Passions, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

2015

Marino Marini: do arcaísmo ao fim da forma. - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
Marino Marini: Do Arcaísmo Ao Fim Da Forma - Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre

2013

Marino Marini's From Color To Form - UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Marino Marini: l'arcaico - Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna

2010

Marino Marini - Museumsverein Bruneck, Bruneck, BZ

2007

Marini Marino - Sun Gallery / Sun Art Center, Seoul
Marino Marini - National Museum Of Contemporary Art Korea, Deoksugung, Seoul

2006

Marino Marini: Il segno e la forma - Museo d`Arte dello Splendore, Giulianova, TE
Marino Marini - An archaic sculptor of modern art - National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athen

2001

marino marini (1901-1980) opere su carta - Museo Marino Marini, Florenz

2000

Marino Marini - Pferd und Reiter - Graphische Arbeiten - Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Marino Marini - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Rocca, Chiavari, GE

1995

Marino Marini - Esculturas E Desenhos - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lissabon
Marino Marini - KunstHaus Wien, Wien

1993

Marino Marini: peintures - Musée des beaux-arts de Chartres, Chartres

1986

Marino Marini - University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

1978

Marino Marini - National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo

1976

Marino Marini, Druckgraphik - Haus der Kunst München, München

1965

Marino Marini - graphics and related works - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1962

Marino Marini - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

1955

Marino Marini - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1953

Marino Marini - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Marino Marini - Statens museum for kunst, Kopenhagen

1952

Marino Marini - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg