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: 57 x 100 x 47 cm.
During the 80's, Manuel Marín was in a stage of consolidation and maturity in his artistic career. During those years he continued to develop his mobile sculptures, deepening his research into movement, balance and the relationship with space. His work evolved towards increasingly refined compositions, in which color and structure acquired a fundamental role within an already fully personal language.
This mobile sculpture uses primary colors, evoking the neoplasticist language. Calder's influence can be perceived in his conception of space, although Marín imprints his own character on the work.
Manuel Marín began his career in bullfighting at the age of ten, participating in his first bullfight at sixteen. However, at the age of twenty he moved to London, where he worked in an art gallery and oriented his career towards sculpture. In that context he met Henry Moore, who incorporated him as an assistant in the elaboration of bronze sculptures. In 1964 he took up residence in New York, working as an art restorer before founding The American Indian Art Gallery, whose clientele included prominent artists such as Warhol, Basquiat, De Kooning and Keith Haring. Beginning in 1969 he began to develop his own sculptural output, especially in the field of movable structures, and in 1970 held his first exhibition at the Alan Brown Gallery in Scarsdale. Since then, his work has been exhibited in numerous countries and is part of international collections. He currently has public monuments in the United States and Spain, consolidating a wide critical and public recognition.