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Béton Brut is proud to announce its representation of the estate of the late artist Salvino Marsura (1938–2020).
As such, the gallery will be hosting special exhibitions of Marsura’s work over the next three years, kicking off with Milan design week, London craft week and London design festival in 2025.
Salvino Marsura (1938-2020) was an artisan metalworker. After learning his craft in the dynamic workshop of sculptor and ‘iron poet’ Toni Benetton, he spent more than 60 years producing sculpture, furniture, objects and memorials in his hometown of Treviso, Italy.
Marsura’s ironwork art and furniture relishes in the manual aesthetic of the forge, giving voice to the raw metal and the processes of its manipulation including sweltering heat, hammering, bending and welding. His distinctive hand marries elements of brutalism and traditional decorative arts.
Béton Brut was pleased to present: Unbound: A Salvino Marsura retrospective. The exhibition explored ideas of nature uninhibited and the human impulse to restrain it.
Spanning six decades of Marsura’s furniture, lighting and sculpture, Unbound brought unseen works from his Treviso forge into Béton Brut’s interior landscape, celebrating the gallery’s 10th anniversary in Hackney Wick.
Covered by The Financial Times, Milk Décoration, ICON, Elle Décoration, Galerie Magazine, TAT London, Livingetc and Dezeen.
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Béton Brut was pleased to present: Forge to fold: Hands at work from iron to paper.
This dynamic group show featured a selection of never-seen pieces from artisan metalworker Salvino Marsura, in dialogue with works from Béton Brut’s contemporary designers — David Horan, Archive for Space and Grace Prince.
Covered by Wallpaper*, Elle Decoration UK, Design Anthology, and TAT London.
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Apertura 01 presented Tutto Bene’s ‘Legato’ collection in dialogue with three Salvino Marsura sculptures rediscovered by Béton Brut. The installation explored the tension between movement and solidity.
Covered by T Magazine, Wallpaper*, Dezeen, and Sight Unseen.
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In April 2025, Béton Brut showcased monumental sculptures by Marsura at Alcova’s Villa Borsani. The works were placed in the villa’s entrance gardens, offering visitors a striking introduction as they approached the historic early twentieth century residence.
Covered by T Magazine, Sight Unseen, and Dwell.
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The Marsura Estate, in Treviso, Italy. Shot by Genevieve Lutkin.
