Salvino Marsura Ballerina sculpture

The ballerina, perched on a flower-like base, hovers in the air and sinuously twists and turns, not unlike the slender tendrils of a climbing plant. 

The piece is in good condition and features signs of pigment.

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.

H39 W22 D20cm

SM343