Salvino Marsura Figura Misteriosa sculpture

A singular arched line of iron describes this figure-like form. A curled base gives into a feather-like central body, before bowing into a flower-like top. A sense of weightlessness and ambiguity characterises this piece. 

The sculpture is in good condition, with some 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.

H104 W22 D18cm 

SM197