Marino Marini - Aquarius

A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes and equestrian monuments, and painters have always found it a challenge to depict it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering.

This graphic work is a clear example of Marino Marini's interpretation of the figure of the knight or the horse, a highly relevant subject for him. Indeed, Marini believed that the figure of the equestrian monument was an interpreter, in the history of civilizations, of the diverse sensibilities that had spanned the centuries. Marini's interpretation of it in this lithograph is one of expressionism so extreme as to reach the heights of abstraction. The subjects are virtually reduced to pure forms, taking on a powerfully archaic quality. The linework is heavily marked, the artist's mark is gestural and charged with meaning, and the color has a spiritual quality.

Marino Marini, born in Pistoia in 1901 and died in Viareggio in 1980, was both a painter and a sculptor. After an initial academic education, he devoted his entire artistic research to the pursuit of pure forms. His artistic career unfolded in a climate of "return to order," or the recovery of plastic and figurative values, which characterized his sculptural production in particular. He was greatly influenced by classical sculpture, as well as medieval art. His aesthetic is characterized by stylized and elongated forms.

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