Salvino Marsura La Coppia sculpture

La Coppia – or the couple – is a diminutive ensemble of two statues, one recognisably human while its companion is pared back to an abstract column.  

The piece is in good condition and features 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.

H27 W5 D5cm

H24 W4 D4cm

SM342