Marino Marini. Arcane Fantasie

An exhibition dedicated to the genius of one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, the result of the prestigious collaboration between 24 ORE Cultura, Forte di Bard and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence.

The exhibition, curated by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Novecento Museum in Florence, and set up in the Cannon Rooms of the Fortress of Bard, focuses on Marini’s main sources of inspiration and recurring themes in his research, presenting the public with as many as 23 sculptures and 39 works on canvas and paper, in a journey between the return of the archaic and the supremacy of dream and fantasy.

A world of horses and horsemen, of warriors and ancient gods, of jugglers and dancers, in which all the complexity and variety of Marini’s artistic genius emerges, who has always been attracted to figurative language. A language that finds its highest expression in horses and riders, the best-known subjects of his production, transformed into a medium for reading reality and narrating the human condition. Figures that over time, become less and less defined and more and more expressive, until they take on the connotations of sculptural metaphors.