Manuel Marín

MANUEL MARÍN (Cieza, Murcia, 1942 - Málaga, 2007).
Untitled, c. 1970.
Polychrome iron. Unique piece.
Attached certificate of authenticity issued by Mrs. Monika Rabassa, widow of the artist.
It has very slight wear.
Signed.
Measurements: 77 x 140 x 80 cm.
In the 70's, Manuel Marín was already fully focused on his artistic career in New York. After opening his gallery, The American Indian Art Gallery, he began to develop his own sculptural production more intensely, and in 1969 he began to create mobile sculptures, a line that marked much of his work during those years. In 1970 he held his first solo exhibition at the Alan Brown Gallery in Scarsdale, which marked the beginning of his public projection as a sculptor. In this case we are faced with a mobile sculpture in iron whose polychromy, based on primary colors, refers to the neoplasticist tradition.
Manuel Marín began his career in bullfighting at the age of ten, participating in his first bullfight at the age of 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.