Salvino Marsura Forged Mirror X

Reed-like forms coalesce and whorl across the rhythmic frame of this mirror, as if gently eddying through water. Forged with wrought iron and coloured pigments, this mirror has been recently restored, fitted with antique glass. 

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.

H54 W46 D5cm

SM005