Manuel Marín

MANUEL MARÍN (Cieza, Murcia, 1942 - Málaga, 2007).
Untitled, c. 1980.
Polychrome iron. Unique piece.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Mrs. Monika Rabassa, widow of the artist.
It has very slight wear.
Signed.
Measurements: 98 x 150 x 40 cm.
This mobile sculpture by Manuel Marín is part of his stage of artistic maturity, in which the author consolidates his own language based on the balance between form, color and movement. The work, made in polychrome metal, articulates an aerial composition in which curved elements and planes of primary colors move in space, generating a sensation of controlled instability and continuous visual rhythm. This work must be understood within the context of the 1980s, when Marín had already developed a solid career in New York and had fully defined his interest in mobile sculptures. In this period, his production is characterized by a greater formal purification and by the search for more balanced structures, where color acts as a structuring element of space.
Manuel Marín started bullfighting at the age of ten and made his debut at sixteen, but at the age of twenty he moved to London, where he worked in an art gallery and turned to sculpture. There he collaborated with Henry Moore as an assistant in the creation of bronze works. In 1964 he settled in New York, where he was an art restorer before opening The American Indian Art Gallery, with clients including Warhol, Basquiat, De Kooning and Keith Haring. In 1969 he began making his own sculptures, influenced by mobile art, and in 1970 he presented his first exhibition at the Alan Brown Gallery in Scarsdale. His work has been exhibited internationally and currently has public monuments in the United States and Spain, as well as being present in collections in different countries.