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: 41 x 70 x 27 cm.
In the context of the 80's, when Manuel Marín had already fully defined his artistic identity, this mobile sculpture in iron shows his interest in formal synthesis and structural color. The primary tones articulate the composition and refer to the principles of neoplasticism, while the suspended forms generate a sensation of unstable equilibrium. The work dialogues with the tradition of kinetic sculpture represented by Calder, but is distinguished by Marín's ability to convert movement into a more poetic and personal language.
Manuel Marín began bullfighting at the age of ten and made his debut at sixteen, but at 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.