Salvino Marsura Anelli sculpture

Rings – anelli – of a chain are welded to a pole in this deceptively simple sculpture. The rings’ curves contrast with more hard-edged elements, lending the piece a powerful vertical tension.

The piece is in good condition, featuring patination true to its age.

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.

H65 W14 D14cm

SM108