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: 43 x 90 x 35 cm.
In the 80's, a stage of consolidation in Manuel Marín's career, this mobile sculpture in polychrome metal shows its aesthetic and conceptual maturity. The use of primary colors not only provides visual contrast, but also organizes the structure of the work within a logic close to neoplasticism. The forms, suspended in a dynamic equilibrium, transform the space into a field of variable tensions. Although Calder's influence is recognized in the kinetic dimension, Marín develops his own language, based on the precision of balance and the search for unstable harmonies.
Manuel Marín began in the world of bullfighting at the age of ten and made his debut in a bullfight at sixteen. However, at twenty he decided to move to London, where he began working in an art gallery and discovered his vocation for sculpture. There he met the British artist Henry Moore, who incorporated him as an assistant in the creation of his bronze sculptures. In 1964 he moved to New York, where he worked as an art restorer before founding his own gallery, The American Indian Art Gallery, which had among its clients figures such as Warhol, Basquiat, De Kooning and Keith Haring. Fascinated by mobile sculptures, he began his own production in 1969 and the following year held his first exhibition at the Alan Brown Gallery in Scarsdale. Since then, his work has been exhibited in New York and in countries such as Canada, Italy, Mexico, China, Puerto Rico, Japan and Spain. He currently has public monuments in the United States and Spain, and his work is part of international collections, having been recognized by both critics and the public.