Sagenhaft! 40 Jahre Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie

95 Cavallo e Cavaliere | 1955 Öl und Tusche auf Malkarton auf Leinwand 85,5 x 62 cm Cavaliere (composizione) and Series Cavallo e Cavaliere Horse and rider are Marini‘s main subjects. The bond between horse and man is, for Marini, the expression of the mythical in contrast to everyday reality. Beauty and decline, bravery and failure, victory and self-assertion come together. After the distressing experience of the war this constel- lation turns into the role model of a tragic view of the world. The alarmed, rearing horses with the falling riders are Marini‘s symbols for the precari- ous existence of mankind, the rider spreading his arms is the dominator on shaky grounds. In the sculpture the figurative changes into the abstraction of energetic but jagged and inhar- monious movements, full of destructive energy, which still creates a meaningful artistic form. The tempera work of 1949 has a static horse, the falling rider sucking up all energy. As a back figure he implies even more power and effect, enhanced by the upward pointing leg: Fate becomes form. The 1955 work, however, shows both the inner and outer relations of horse and rider, a bond whose emotional character is reflected in the multi-lay- ered, dramatically moved painterly treatment of the surface.

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