MARINO MARINI
VISUAL PASSIONS
MARINO
MARINI
VISUAL PASSIONS
ENCOUNTERS WITH MASTERWORKS
OF SCULPTURE FROM
THE ETRUSCANS TO HENRY MOORE
This catalogue examines the sculpture of Marino Marini (1901-1980)
with the methods of art historical enquiry for the first time. The myths
that have gathered around Marini (the artist-potter, the reborn Etruscan,
the Tuscan primitive, modern despite himself) have distorted our
reading of his work and segregated him from history. Marini is here
returned to the context of twentieth-century European sculpture,
against which he continually measured himself. His work is also viewed
of meditation and source of inspiration.
Three essays evaluate major historiographic questions that surround
Marini: his place in Italy’s art system in the 1930s and 1940s; the
art critical writing that shaped the Marini myth in his lifetime; his
archaeological sources. The second part of the catalogue, in eight
chapters, looks at specific aspects and periods, from the early work
to the 1960s, tracing the development of style and content in Marini’s
sculpture. The catalogue closes with the first exhaustive compilation
of Marini’s own statements and interviews on the poetics of his work,
from 1935 to 1973.
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ENCOUNTERS WITH MASTERWORKS OF SCULPTURE
FROM THE ETRUSCANS TO HENRY MOORE
in the light of the ancient sculpture which was for him a constant object
MARINO
MARINI
VISUAL PASSIONS
ENCOUNTERS WITH MASTERWORKS
OF SCULPTURE FROM
THE ETRUSCANS TO HENRY MOORE
MARINO
MARINI
VISUAL PASSIONS
ENCOUNTERS WITH MASTERWORKS
OF SCULPTURE FROM
THE ETRUSCANS TO HENRY MOORE
MARINO
MARINI
VISUAL PASSIONS
ENCOUNTERS WITH MASTERWORKS
OF SCULPTURE FROM
THE ETRUSCANS TO HENRY MOORE
Pistoia, Palazzo Fabroni, 16 September 2017 – 7 January 2018
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 27 January – 1 May 2018
Exhibition curated by
Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi
with the collaboration of
Chiara Fabi
under the patronage of
with the support of
Catalogue edited by
Barbara Cinelli, Flavio Fergonzi
and Philip Rylands
Press Offices
Studio ESSECI Padova
Cinzia Dugo
Texts by
Barbara Cinelli, Chiara Fabi,
Vincenzo Farinella, Flavio Fergonzi,
Francesco Guzzetti, Gianmarco Russo
Social Network and Website
I social di Anna di Anna Paci
Pruvit di Alessandro Giorgi
Translations
Susan Glasspool, Mariacristina Intrieri
Exhibition Website
www.marinomarinipassionivisive.it
Scientific Committee
Barbara Cinelli, Flavio Fergonzi,
Philip Rylands, Salvatore Settis,
Carlo Sisi, Maria Teresa Tosi
Setting-Up
Opera Laboratori Fiorentini Spa
General Coordination
Maria Teresa Tosi,
Director, Fondazione Marino Marini
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection the
exhibition has been made possible thanks to
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Reception, Educational Activities and Events
Dipartimento Educativo della Fondazione
Marino Marini, Pistoia; Artemisia
Associazione Culturale, Pistoia; Cooperativa
Itinera, Livorno; Alice Cooperativa Sociale
Onlus, Prato
The Fondazione Marino Marini and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
sincerely thank the lenders to this exhibition,
public and private, and the directors and
staff of public institutions, all of whom have
helped to make this exhibition possible: in
particular Giuseppe Marra, Andrea Orciuolo
and Fabrizio Giandotti of the Camera dei
Deputati, Rome; Cristiana Collu, Stefano
Marson, Lucia Lamanna and Maria Profiri
of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea, Rome; Claudio Parisi
Presicce, Sonia Mangia, Angela Carbonaro
and Daniela Tabò of the Musei Capitolini,
Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome; Valentino
Nizzo, Maria Paola Guidobaldi, Massimiliano
Piemonte and Alessia Argento of the Museo
Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome;
Anna Maria Montaldo, Ignazio Amuro, Danka
Giacon and Maria Grazia Conti of the Museo
del Novecento, Milan; Patrizia Asproni and
Gabriella Sorelli of the Museo Marino Marini,
Florence; Paola D’Agostino, Ilaria Ciseri,
Andrea Staderini and Susi Piovanelli of the
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence;
Mario Iozzo, Giuseppina Carlotta Cianferoni
and Maria Cristina Guidotti of the Museo
Archeologico Nazionale, Florence; Silvia
Penna, Antonella Nesi, Cristina Poggi
and Claudia Bardelloni of the Collezioni
del Novecento dei Musei Civici Fiorentini,
Florence; Gian Franco Indrizzi and Silvia
Verdoliva of the Opera della Metropolitana,
Siena; Elena Testaferrata, Elisabetta
Bucciantini and Lisa Di Zanni of the Musei
Civici, Pistoia; Giuliano Gori and Miranda
MacPhail of the Collezione Gori, Pistoia;
Carlotta Montebello and Laura Berra of the
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro of Milan;
Gianfranco Maraniello, Clarenza Catullo,
Attilio Begher and Serena Aldi of MART,
Rovereto; Karole P.B. Vail and Sandra Divari
of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice; Francesca Spatafora, Alessandra
Merra and Giovanna Scardina of the Museo
Archeologico Antonino Salinas, Palermo;
Catherine Chevillot, Audrey d’Hendecourt,
Typhaine Ameil, Diane Tytgat, Pauline
Hisbacq and Jérôme Manoukian of the
Musée Rodin, Paris; Bernard Blistène,
Serge Lasvignes, Justine Tonelli, Rania
Moussa Morin, Lucille Royan of the Centre
Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne Centre de création industrielle, Paris; Olivier
Lorquin and Nathalie Houzé of the Fondation
Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris; Anne Dary
and Anne-Laure Le Guen of the Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Rennes; Beat Wismer and
Inge Maruyama of the Museum Kunstpalast,
Düsseldorf; Josef Helfenstein, Eva Reifert,
Svenja Held, Werner Müller, Sophie Eichner,
Charlotte Gutzwiller and Jonas Hänggi of
the Kunstmuseum, Basel; Bernhard Maaz,
Corinna Thierolf, Florian Schwemer, Ilona
Koroma, Simone Kober, Cornelia Braun,
Wolfgang Wastian of the Bayerischen
Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Pinakothek
der Moderne, Munich; Marco Valerio Masi
and Gea Alessandra Masi, Saint-Vincent; the
Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venice; the Galleria
Matteo Lampertico, Milan; the Galleria
Torbandena, Trieste; David Nahmad, Monte
Carlo, Principality of Monaco; Luigi Filippo
Toninelli, Milan; and other private collectors
who have preferred anonymity.
The Fondazione Marino Marini and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are
also grateful to the Superintendencies
who have authorized loans on behalf of the
Italian Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività
Culturali. A special thanks to the Regione
Toscana for its support and assistance.
The curators Barbara Cinelli and Flavio
Fergonzi gratefully thank the director and
staff of the Archivio Storico della Biennale,
Venice; the director and staff of the Archivi
della Quadriennale, Rome; Valeria Poletto
of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice;
Ester Fasino of the Kunsthistorisches
Institut, Florence; Antonio Quattrone.
Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi express
their particular gratitude to Philip Rylands,
who enthusiastically supported this
enterprise from the outset and who oversaw
the translation of the catalogue into English.
FONDAZIONE
MARINO MARINI
Commissione scientifica
Maria Teresa Tosi
direttore
Flavio Fergonzi
Consiglio
Commissione Mostre
Paolo Pedrazzini
presidente
Maria Teresa Tosi
presidente
Sauro Massa
sostituto del presidente
Luigi Russo Papotto
Carlo Carnacini
Maria Cristina Masdea
Maria Teresa Tosi
Alfredo Coen
Ambra Tuci
Francesco Burchielli
Sindaci revisori
Ambra Tuci
responsabile Dipartimento
Educativo ed Eventi
Vittorio Nardini
Luca Iozzelli
Stefano Paci
Stefano Sala
commercialista
Honorary Trustees in Perpetuity
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Justin K. Thannhauser
Peggy Guggenheim
Hilla Rebay
Honorary Chairman
Peter Lawson-Johnston
Chairman
William L. Mack
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Treasurer
Robert C. Baker
Secretary
Edward F. Rover
Assistant Secretary
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Thomas Krens
Trustees
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Robert C. Baker
John Calicchio
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Cindy Chua-Tay
Mary Sharp Cronson
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Wendy Fisher
Elliot S. Jaffe
Rashid Johnson
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William L. Mack
Linda Macklowe
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Denise Saul
Michael P. Schulhof
James B. Sherwood
David Shuman
Barbara Slifka
Sidney Toledano
Mark R. Walter
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Elizabeth Richebourg Rea
Trustees Emeriti
Robert M. Gardiner
Barbara Jonas
Jennifer Blei Stockman
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John S. Wadsworth, Jr.
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Council
Alberto Vitale
Chair, Executive Committee,
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Advisory Board
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Karole P. B. Vail
Museum Shop
Silvana Ndreca
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Honorary Members
Olga Adamishina
The Countess Castle Stewart
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Christina Baker
Alberto Baldan
Ronald D. Balser
Adriana Batan Rocca
Renée Belfer
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Kristen Venable
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM
COLLECTION FAMILY
COMMITTEE
David Hélion †
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Nicolas Hélion
Sandro Rumney
Laurence Tacou
Clovis Vail
Julia Vail and Bruce Mouland
Karole P. B. Vail, Andrew Huston
Mark Vail
The headquarters of the Fondazione Marino Marini have been
in Palazzo del Tau in the city of Pistoia, Italy, the birthplace
of the artist, since the early 1990s. Marini’s wife, Mercedes
Pedrazzini, whom he, and all of us, called with fondness
Marina, worked indefatigably to ensure that the headquarters
of the Foundation, named after Marini, would be situated
precisely there. Marina knew how deeply attached her husband
was to Pistoia, to which he had donated several important
sculptures and a large collection of works on paper. She
also knew that Marini had wished to leave to the Foundation
all the documentation that would tell the story of his life and
work: letters, books, photographs, prints and everything that
could be useful for describing the man and the artist. That is
why Marina, who was President of the Foundation until her
death in 2008, worked for years to establish good relations
with the city and the City Council, which, to everyone’s good
fortune, recognized the importance of the artist’s arrival in,
or rather return to, his native Pistoia, and generously offered
the Foundation the use of a prestigious building: the former
Convento del Tau.
The Foundation has grown considerably since it found its stable
‘home’ here in Pistoia and it is now accepted as the only point
of reference for authenticating Marini’s work at an international
level. It has installed the museum with rich and various works by
Marini, covering his whole career and the variety of his mediums.
Palazzo del Tau also incorporates an all-purpose space for
events and temporary exhibitions and has gradually become a
focal point for art education in Pistoia and Tuscany. Every year
hundreds of Marini’s works, some normally on display in the
rooms of the museum, others from the Foundation’s storerooms,
depart from here to take part in large and important exhibitions
throughout the world.
Marina would be proud of what she started so many years
ago and I like to think that she would also find pleasure
in this exhibition: she always liked to do things on a large
scale and would certainly have been delighted to see all the
ancient and modern masterpieces gathered here bringing to
life the exhibition rooms of Palazzo Fabroni and of the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection, each one revealing its connection
to Marini’s work. Marino Marini. Visual Passions is the first
retrospective exhibition that sets out to locate Marini in the
history of sculpture, offering a fresh contribution towards
a stylistic and historical understanding of Marini’s way of
making art.
The exhibition was born from an idea that originated within
the Foundation itself, as it had felt the need to reconsider all
stages of Marini’s career, from the 1920s, when he began to
study art, up to the 1960s, the years of his full artistic maturity.
Marini was a complex artist, possessing a twin soul that was
both archaic and modern. He was always deeply attached to
the Mediterranean roots that conditioned his aesthetic vision,
the profound content of his work, and his plastic vision.
His gaze was, however, never averted from the present
and the future. He declared: “I am very glad to live in this
world, indeed, the world is part of me, I could not survive
if I was isolated, I need to feel mankind close to me,
to understand what it thinks and to feel its way of life.
This brings richness to my art, I must nourish myself with this,
and when I am well nourished I can work.”
These multiple facets have been carefully studied and fully
explored in this exhibition which, for the first time, presents
some works that were the object of Marini’s study, from the
visual panorama that he admired and loved, in the eloquent
company of his own sculptures. Yet these affinities and
inflections, which undoubtedly contributed towards forming
Marini as a man and as an artist, should not cause us to
forget how unique an artist he was.
Marini survived, in a century no less complex than the previous
one, by carrying within him the seeds of the invaluable lessons
he learned from the old masters, which he then sublimated in
works of sculpture that are the authentic offspring of a “tragic and
expressionist” present.
Marini left a truly original vision to posterity, both with his great
symbolic themes – the Pomonas, the horses, the riders and the
jugglers – and with the incisive vision of his portraits, whose
pensive, or ironic, or any other expression deliver to us a powerful
trajectory of personalities who have contributed to the shaping of
our recent history.
Maria Teresa Tosi
Director, Fondazione Marino Marini
Sir Herbert Read, who had been Peggy Guggenheim’s mentor
when in 1939 she first conceived the idea of a museum of modern
art, wrote an introduction to Gualtieri di San Lazzaro’s catalogue
of the complete works of Marino Marini (1970). The declared
intention of his essay was “to define the distinctive qualities of
Marino Marini’s sculpture, comparing and contrasting his work
with that of his predecessors and with the work of certain of his
contemporaries.” This exhibition has much the same intention – that
of exploring Marini’s influences and sources. No previous exhibition
has ever set out to do this. We would first thank the curators,
Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi, who with the assistance of
Chiara Fabi have planned the exhibition and brought to it all the
qualities of their connoisseurship and scholarship.
It is a privilege for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
to have worked with the Fondazione Marino Marini of Pistoia
on this enterprise, with two venues for the exhibition: first in
Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, and secondly in the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection, Venice. We would like to express our esteem for Paolo
Pedrazzini, president of the Fondazione Marino Marini, to Maria
Teresa Tosi, its director, to the members of the Fondazione’s
Board, and to its staff.
It is always a pleasure on such occasions as this to recognize
and thank those who with their generosity make possible the
exhibitions of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: the museum’s
Institutional Patrons, EFG, Lavazza and Regione del Veneto;
the Guggenheim Intrapresæ, stalwart corporate supporters
whose loyalty to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection enables
us to develop long-term exhibition programs; and the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection Advisory Board. The Fondazione Araldi
Guinetti nobly supports various programs auxiliary to the exhibition
in Venice.
We would also thank the private collectors and public institutions
who have generously lent sculpture by Marino Marini, by sculptors
of the past, and by Marini’s great contemporaries. The full list of
lenders is published elsewhere in this catalogue, but we would
like to acknowledge the numerous contributions made by the
Marini museums in Pistoia and Florence, and by the Marini
Collection at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, which represent
a gratifying recognition of the importance of Marini and of the
scholarly value of this effort.
Richard Armstrong,
Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum
Philip Rylands,
Director Emeritus, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Karole P. B. Vail,
Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
This exhibition arose from the simple realization that the time
had come to examine the work of Marino Marini using the
methodology of art history. This may seem obvious; nevertheless
there has been nothing like it for decades. The myths that have
gathered around the figure of Marini (the artist-potter, the reborn Etruscan, the Tuscan primitive modern despite himself)
have tended to flatten his biography, and above all his work.
There has long been a tendency to consider him an artist outside
history, in this way dissociating him from the context of European
sculpture in the 20th century, against which he himself constantly
measured his work; nor, which is worse, has the importance to
him of ancient sculpture, a source of constant inspiration, been
adequately assessed.
The myths that have clung to Marini go back to 1950, to his solo
show at the Curt Valentin Gallery in New York and the success
(critical, commercial and media) that it brought to him. With the
complicity of interviews and photo shoots, the image of him as
‘ambassador’ to America of Italian style (Mediterranean archaism
and Tuscan rigor translated into an elegant modern format) rapidly
generated the legend. This in turn contributed to an outstanding
success in terms of exhibitions and international sales (United
States, Northern Europe, even Japan). When therefore, following
the great exhibition at Palazzo Venezia in Rome in 1966, Marini’s
work began to be viewed retrospectively, the critical readings
of his work adopted this legend. They fixed upon the continuity
of certain themes: the Riders, the Pomonas and the circus. Or
they fielded pseudo-critical categories: the myth, pure form, the
primacy of drawing. The many interviews given by Marini in the
1960s and 1970s (anthologized here for the first time) enable
us to judge the extent to which he was consensual and/or a
promoter of his own myth: a myth that not only conditioned the
militant critics but hindered a correct historiography. Critics, in
fact, conformed to the interpretative apparatus that Marini himself
authorized. In this way, on closer scrutiny, the writings published
in the catalogues of monographic exhibitions are of interest from
the point of view of a social history of art (how the myth of the
last sculptor qua sculptor was constructed; how his public image
was established with a few modish stereotypes). They betray,
however, an impressive vacuity in terms of the formal analysis of
his work, whether sculpture or painting.
The exhibition Marino Marini. Visual Passions reacts to this now
sedimented critical approach. It aims first and foremost to go
back to the work itself, and, as suggested by the exhibition’s
title, to retrieve the specificity of Marini’s visual language. It
does so by juxtaposing Marini’s work with sculpture by others,
from ancient civilizations to his contemporaries. This operation,
never previously attempted, enables us concretely to evaluate
the generic historical-artistic treatment of Marini to date, so
often neglectful of the biographical facts or even of the works
themselves. For example: the Etruscan stereotype, which has
weighed heavily on writing about Marini, is re-examined and
clarified here in the light of other archaeological influences
ranging from Greek to Oriental art; the dialogue with important
sculptures by Arturo Martini and Giacomo Manzù illustrates
Marini’s contribution to figurative culture in Italy in the 1930s,
especially in terms of the genre of the male nude; Aristide
Maillol’s and Ernesto De Fiori’s female nudes are seen as
essential points of reference for the Pomona series; Marini’s
interest in Donatello and Auguste Rodin, concentrated in the
more expressionist phase of the 1940s, is re-positioned within
a precise network of retrospective considerations involving the
two artists in the same period, and their works are included in
the exhibition with Marini’s in combinations that are for the first
time instructive; the reference to Picasso, which indiscriminately
dominated the interpretation of Marini’s work in the 1950s, is
re-considered, in a triangulation with Henry Moore, as a way
to understand his interest in great medieval Italian sculpture,
Giovanni Pisano in particular.
The project of inserting Marini into the history of sculpture has
also moved the center of gravity of his catalogue. In place of the
customary perception of the Miracles and Warriors of the 1950s
as the culmination and peak of his career, we have preferred
to dwell at length on the two previous decades, the 1930s and
1940s, the period which was of special importance for Marini’s
positioning vis-à-vis the major issues that confronted European
sculptors.
This exhibition is neither retrospective nor hagiographic. Together
with its catalogue it sets out to provoke a historically viable
reflection on that which linked Marini to the events of 20thcentury modernism, from the 1920s to the 1960s, a reflection
that, we trust, will serve to retrieve for Marini an international
dimension to his career.
Barbara Cinelli
Flavio Fergonzi
6. Expressionisms
FRANCESCO GUZZETTI
6. I
6. X
Marino Marini
Juggler, 1940
bronze, 26 x 21 x 25.5 cm
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
Marino Marini
Portrait of Germaine Richier, 1945
bronze, 58 x 43 x 30.5 cm
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
6. II
6. XI
Auguste Rodin
Juggler, circa 1892–1895
bronze, 30 x 12.5 x 14.5 cm
Paris, Musée Rodin
Marino Marini
Archangel, 1943
plaster, 24.5 x 17.8 x 25.1 cm
Florence, Museo Marino Marini
(for exhibition in Pistoia only)
6. III
Marino Marini
Juggler, 1940
bronze, 66 x 41 x 75 cm
Florence, Museo Marino Marini
6. IV
Auguste Rodin
Torso of a Seated Woman (Torse Morhardt),
circa 1895
bronze, 13.8 x 9.3 x 8.6 cm
Paris, Musée Rodin
6. XII
Marino Marini
Portrait of Karl von Schumacher, 1944
polychrome plaster, 26.5 x 16.5 x 23.7 cm
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
(for exhibition in Pistoia only)
6. XIII
Marino Marini
Susanna, 1943
bronze, 74 x 27.5 x 45 cm
Private collection
6. V
Marino Marini
Small Nude, 1943
bronze, 31.2 x 24 x 17.9 cm
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
6. XIV
Marino Marini
Juggler, 1944
polychrome bronze, 88.4 x 37.8 x 67.2 cm
Florence, Museo Marino Marini
6. VI
Auguste Rodin
The Tragic Muse (small model),
1893–1894
bronze, 31 x 52 x 54.5 cm
Paris, Musée Rodin
6. XV
6. VII
6. XVI
Marino Marini
Archangel, 1943
polychrome plaster, 72 x 40 x 37.5 cm
Milan, Museo del Novecento,
Marino Marini Collection
(for exhibition in Pistoia only)
Germaine Richier
Pomona, 1945
bronze, 78 x 26 x 24 cm
Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
6. VIII
Marino Marini
Archangel, 1943
Polychrome plaster, 131.5 x 60 x 40 cm
Florence, Museo Marino Marini
(for exhibition in Pistoia only)
6. IX.
Desiderio da Settignano
(historically attributed to Donatello)
Bust of Niccolò da Uzzano, circa 1430
polychrome terracotta, 55 x 44 x 23 cm
Florence, Museo del Bargello
(for exhibition in Pistoia only)
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Marino Marini
Nude, 1947
bronze, 79.6 x 26.9 x 18.2 cm
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
This section of the exhibition looks at Marino Marini’s work during the main part of
the 1940s, and focuses above all on the
early years of the decade, when his figures
embodied an unprecedented expressive
intensity, in accordance with the climate of
a troubled avant-garde which united many
artists against official Fascist art and culture during the Second World War.
The facts of Marini’s life in those years –
after becoming a teacher at the Accademia
Albertina in Turin in 1940, he saw the
bombing of his own studio in Monza and of
his apartment in Milan, and was forced to
leave with his wife, first for upper Lombardy
and then to Tenero, near Locarno – inevitably steered the “expressionist” tack of his
sculptures into a channel of discussion that
was only dawning.
The use of the term “expressionism” is not
casual, indicating one of the most conspicuous debates in art in the period leading up
to 1945, under the terms of which Marini
put his own subject matter to the test. Although at first applicable to painting, the
concept of “expressionism” in sculpture
meant the potential of attaining the same
degree of expressive autonomy as a picture or work on paper, in a new combat between the arts on the field of the paragone
which was to become widespread between
the late 1940s and the early 1950s.1
About a decade later Giuseppe Marchiori
looked back at this phase of Marini’s career,
and observed the change it had undergone:
referring to the works of 1943, he wrote:
“Marini participates in the tragedy of the
world with unexpected emotional force and
his protest has a tone so resolute that it is
reflected in the austere firmness of the images, transformed from within, constructed
on ascending lines, according to a moral
measure to the highest point of the artist’s
human commitment. The ‘expressionist
lack of proportion’ is the new element grafted onto the trunk of archaic purism; it is
the Nordic ‘canon’ of the Susanna (1943),
much like a Cranach nude. The painterly
artifices, to animate and bring to life the
surface, should be understood in the unity of ‘expressionist’ vision: they mark the
points where the light must strike strongest
to accentuate the contrast with the stronger shadows of the planes which turn in on
themselves and which Marini considered it
useless to simulate with voids.”2
The comparison of Susanna (6.XIII)3 to the
painting of Cranach brings us to the Northern sources that were certainly important to Marini, but that need to be framed
nevertheless by the broader expressionist
tendency of his work, visible in the painterly treatment, rich in luminous effects, of
the surface. “Corroded surfaces” – to quote
a phrase from a key text on this period4 –
brought together the work of many artists
in those years, among them Germaine
Richier and Fritz Wotruba, both of whom
Marini came to know and frequent in his
time in Swtizerland.
Marchiori’s words, through the microcosm
of the treatment of surface, introduced a
deeper issue of sculptural expressionism
that leads us back to the debate mentioned
above. “Lofty school of sculpture, deep attachment to life”: with these words Marini
appeared for the first time in Vita Giovanile
– later Corrente di Vita Giovanile – one of
the critical periodicals of the avant-garde of
the late 1930s. The quote is from the review of the 21st Venice Biennale in 1938
by Raffaele De Grada.5 His short definition, which referred to the artist’s portraits
of Fausto Melotti and Lamberto Vitali on
display in Venice,6 was somehow glossed
by Duilio Morosini, who wrote about Marini
a few months later, observing in his more
recent production signs of moving beyond
sculpture that was architectonic in composition, still savoring of the Novecento, in favor
of a “moral rigor” aiming for the “conquest
of a stylistic order, tending to an intense
characterization by means of a progressive
simplification (for an absolute meaning) of
objects of his own emotion brought close
and understood emotionally.”7 Within a general debate on the new trends in art based
on painting, the concerns in sculpture featured a general predilection for the young
Giacomo Manzù, on the one hand, and on
the other the endeavor to re-evaluate the
work of the older Arturo Martini (given the
interest of young sculptors). Within this dichotomy, Marini emerged tentatively, but
with increasing clarity.8
Marini in fact quickly earned the approval of
Renato Guttuso, a key figure in the practice
and theory of political and social commitment in the new generation of artists. He
naturally considered that painting led the
way for sculpture,9 but from 1938, when he
expressed great admiration for a portrait
in terracotta by Marini in a group exhibition of Italian artists in Palermo,10 Guttuso
never failed to mention Marini’s more powerful works, such as the Young Girl at the
1940 Venice Biennale, or the Small Horse
in the Cardazzo collection exhibited in the
Galleria di Roma in 1941, at which time he
ranked him among “the most solid values,”
alongside Giacomo Manzù, Carlo Carrà,
Mario Mafai, Giorgio Morandi and Scipione.11 Subsequently, during the changed
context of the post-war, and perhaps adjusting to a climate of general disfavor towards Manzù in Rome, Guttuso came to
consider Marini, and few others, among the
vital forces of Italian sculpture, at Manzù’s
expense, and to proclaim that at the 1948
Biennale, where six of Marini’s major works
from the preceding decade were on view in
a solo room,12 “Marino Marini, and I am sorry that the commission awarding the prizes
did not realize this, is the best sculptor, not
just Italian.”13
The profoundest gauge of expressionism
in sculpture was therefore its capacity to
propose a universal language of true and
intense humanity. This was by no means
easy, given the acknowledged primacy of
painting, even in the historical recapitulation of the expressionist avant-garde –
see Mario De Micheli’s introduction to the
1945 translation of the essay by Hermann
Bahr14 – and given also the stigmatization
of the limitations of sculpture, hampered
in terms of an inevitable subordination to
the subject and the many material conditions recounted by Arturo Martini in his
Scultura lingua morta. An editorial note in
Il Politecnico, introducing an excerpt from
the book with a short comment by Guttuso on the possible renewal of sculpture in
the wake of painting, advocated for sculpture the “necessity for a new shift towards
a comprehensive language of the life of
all.”15 “The statue is too human to attain
anonymity”16: to the limit expressed in the
words of Martini referring to the most recent debates on anonymity as a condition
of universality, Marini’s art seemed to react
in those years with an expressive intensification of his surfaces and of his compositions, a process discretely begun earlier,
by attenuating proportions and stretching
and compressing poses in the figures, and
by heightening the psychological tension of
the portraits.
Even critics and commentators began to
notice a change of pace. The Horse, exhibited at the III Mostra Sindacale Fascista
delle Belle Arti in Milan in 1941, was the
most discussed piece, because of the
disorienting overlay of “a vibration of life,
6.1. Marino Marini
Romantic Portrait, 1943.
Milan, Museo del Novecento
(from R. Giolli, in Domus, February 1943)
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which lends a strange and attractive flavor” on the familiar archaic source.17 Then,
in 1942, a short text by Giulio Carlo Argan
demonstrated the difficulties of locating
Marini in the antithesis of the “impressionistic plastic” and the abstraction of the “volumetric plastic” in the light of work which
appeared to have transcended every possible category, “assigning to form an unlimited human substance.”18 When, around
1943, Marini made his most accomplished
works in this new expressive vein – such
as the male Archangel (6.VII, 6.VIII), the
female Archangel (6.XI) and Miracle –
comments wavered between surprise and
lively appreciation. In the same year Raffaello Giolli ended his account of Marini,
predicated on the coherent constructive
solidity of his work, with a pregnant query,
illustrated by the Romantic Portrait (6.1)19:
“Marino was born in 1901: he is now 42
years old. Although we have indicated a
continuity of constructive [form], we do not
believe that even the proud, silent power
of Pomona can be its outcome. The People
and the Rider have still, within them, other
purposes to absolve: and perhaps too the
other head we reproduce here, hermetic
not simply because we do not know its title.”20 That riddle of the hermetic was apparently solved soon after in Stile, where
an anonymous editorial (attributable to Gio
Ponti) accompanied by images of three
sculptures, apparently destined for the
4th Quadriennale in Rome but not after
all displayed,21 dissipated any reservations
about the new works with respect to Marini’s familiar style: “While not denying his
aspiration, which is in his nature, in these
three very recent works we believe we see
instead a more human content; his style
yields to something else and this human
content is painful and confessed and tortured in two figures, more firmly contained
in the third youthful figure. For many, content still means narration, episode, but content can be something more intimate and
express itself without gestures. In these
works by Marino one can find a content of
adherence to our humanity, a content the
artist is unaware of, which in the three images seems to configure the dramatic destinies in which people living today take part.
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Is not the expression of these creatures,
after all, a narration in itself?”.22 The three
figures referred to in Stile were the male
and the female Archangel and the Portrait
of Madame Melms.23 Both Giolli, in passing,
and the unnamed editorial in Stile, were reacting to the novelty that Marini appeared
to be grafting on the solidly constructive
plastic roots of his style, which he himself had already asserted,24 a component
of expression understood as the profound
content of humanity and life, of which the
earliest manifestation was the dual exhibition with Mario Mafai at the Galleria di
Genova in 1941, unanimously acclaimed
by the critics.25
To achieve this new expressionist sensibility, some visual sources came to the aid of
Marini, in addition to the now familiar Middle Ages, enriched by fresh chronological or
geographical notions, especially during his
stay in Switzerland, ranging from his study
of the Romanesque and Tuscan Gothic to
the revelation of the harshness of aspects
of North European Gothic, which he had
known since being struck by the Bamberg
Rider during his 1934 trip to Germany. The
influence of North European art soon became the hallmark of this season, perhaps
also reminiscing the centrality of “certain
intense medieval productions” in the primitivism that the historic expressionists of the
early 20th century had looked at.26 In his
second monograph on Marini (1946), Vitali,
coming to terms with his most recent work
(something he had not fully done when in
1944 he was still writing of the pure forms
and the architectonic vocation of his sculpture27), described the most recent period as
follows: “The crisis of that time Marini calls
his Gothic crisis; and it was, above all, the
necessary outcome of the encounter with
another art, which he found himself living
for the first time from within rather than
from without: an art born in a different atmosphere, from a different tradition, with
a very different sense – more harsh and
dramatic – of beauty. If certain small nudes
seem to be almost overtaken by an expressionist taste, the most obvious witnesses of
his break from the previous period can be
found in the three busts of 1943: the male
Archangel, the female Archangel, the Mira-
cle.” Beyond his loaded use, perhaps for the
first time with such consciousness in the
criticism on Marini, of the phrase “expressionist taste,” Vitali highlighted, in the three
aforementioned works, the “forced verticality [...] that recalls the soaring of Gothic
spires,” and concluded that “all this has been
[but] a moment in Marini’s production, followed immediately by a return to the old language of forms,”28 yet with persisting traces
of the rough surfaces of certain nudes or
in the psychological investigation of some
post-war portraits (6.XV).
In reality, Marini’s attention to Gothic art intersected with other references, not all of
them coherent, that he turned to as part
of his vivid awareness of the art debates in
the early 1940s.
“Tumultuous sculptor [plasticatore], who
seems always in the act of rupturing form,
forcing expression and pushing it to the
limit”: this was Anna Maria Brizio’s description of Auguste Rodin in 1939 in Ottocento Novecento, that the art historian
authored for the series of art history books
published by the UTET. The quote on Rodin was her attempt to reach the heart of
the prevailing interpretation of the great
master.29 Italian sculptors, especially during
the 1930s, looked at Rodin for the same
reason that for art writers he was controversial: he often represented a stumbling
block in understanding the recent history
of sculpture – see the chapter dedicated
to him by Brizio – on the one hand, while
sculptors seeking intense expressivity,
such as Arturo Martini, looked, on the other
hand, at his work as a third way between
the Scylla of Impressionism and the Charybdis of the volumetric closure of more
archaicizing sculpture. The presence of
Rodin in Italian art writing of the 1930s
had been elusive, but steady, and, after all,
his axiom “sculpture is the art of hollows
and mounds, not of the play of light and of
shadow” was known to and discussed by
artists.30 Rodin’s expressive exaggerations,
the violence of his treatment of light on the
surface, the fractures in the consistency of
the forms to the advantage of a continuity
of profiles in his sculpture, must have been
interesting to Marini, who would not have
forgotten his prophetic encounter with the
6. I. Marino Marini, Juggler, 1940
6. II. Auguste Rodin, Juggler, circa 1892–1895
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old French master in Florence in 1915 at
the very beginning of his aspiration to be a
sculptor,31 and perhaps in the early 1930s
had already taken some of Rodin’s practices into account.32
Rodin’s work had appeared in several Italian exhibitions and was represented again
at the 1934 Venice Biennale, which hosted
a survey of 19th-century French art, organized by Louis Hautecour, the Director of
the Musée du Luxembourg, comprising
Rodin’s bronze portraits of Jules Dalou and
Puvis de Chavannes, surrounded by the
work of other artists influenced by him.33
Important works by Rodin were also in the
modern art collections in Rome and Venice
at that time. When in 1938 the collections
of the museums of modern art of the two
cities, which were the two most important
in Italy, were radically reinstalled, several works were exchanged, and thus Rodin’s bronze portrait of Dalou and the Age
of Bronze from the Galleria Nazionale in
Rome came to enrich the foreign section
of the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Mo-
6.2. Marino Marini
Juggler, plaster version, 1940
(from R. Carrieri, Marino Marini
scultore, 1948)
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derna of Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, where they
were in the company of large plasters of
the Thinker and the Burghers of Calais.34
In any case Marini knew Rodin’s work well
enough, thanks to frequent and lengthy visits to Paris, above all between 1928–1929
and 1932–1933, and again around 1937,
when he was awarded the Grand Prix at the
Universal Exhibition in Paris and his Boxer
in wood of 1935 entered the French State
collections; and he may also have known
the anthology of memoirs published by one
of the master’s students, Emile-Antoine
Bourdelle, who was well known in Italy.35
In the light of the interest in a certain verismo – Vincenzo Gemito was an important reference for the whole generation
of sculptors active in the 1930s36 – the
genre in which the first traces of Rodin’s
influence on Marini can be most easily
found is that of portraiture, which in Italy
was held to represent the French artist’s
best work. Towards the end of the decade
however Marini’s interest in Rodin’s models
became more intense, with a progressive
6.3. Auguste Rodin
Crouching Woman, 1906–1908
(cast 1909)
(from Rodin, 1939)
6.4. Auguste Rodin
Cybele (Large Model), 1905
(from Rodin, 1939)
appreciation of the expressive possibilities
of a certain breach between composition
and surface, and the re-elaboration of the
continuity of volumes in a more fluid plastic
formula typical of Rodin. Marini’s Juggler of
1940 (6.I), for example, a small bronze that
signaled his reprise of a subject dear to
him after his first sculptures of this subject
at the beginning of the previous decade,
and which was markedly ‘French,’ testifying to his regular visits to Paris, featured
a completely new composition, in which
the dynamic position of the legs in space,
enhanced by the amputation of the arms
and by the treatment of the bronze surface,
would seem to echo sculptures such as Iris,
Messenger of the Gods in the Musée Rodin.37 The subject itself could have induced
Marini to look more closely at Rodin’s Juggler (6.II), an assemblage whose dynamic
pose stretching into space was reproduced
full-page in 1937 in Carola Giedion-Welcker’s book on modern sculpture, which very
probably circulated in Italy.38
The convention of the fragment, a crucial
feature of Rodin’s sculpture together with
the free movement of forms in space and
the complexity of the scansion of light and
shade on the surfaces, could be found in
another Juggler by Marini of the same year
(6.III), most vivid when photographed rolled
on its back in a plate in the 1948 monograph by Carrieri (6.2).39 Here Marini seems
6. III. Marino Marini, Juggler, 1940
6. IV. Auguste Rodin, Torso of a Seated Woman (Torse Morhardt), circa 1895
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to graft onto the formula of the crouched
figure – which he had already experimented in the 1930s – a compositional closure
such that the plastic unity of the whole dominates and articulates the single parts of the
body. The expressive force of these Jugglers
arguably benefited from the knowledge of
works by Rodin such as The Crouching
Woman, one of the sculptures of greatest
impact from The Gates of Hell, which Rodin
re-used in the assemblage of ‘I am beautiful’, in which the female figure, carried by
The Falling Man, was rolled up into a pose
not unlike that of the Juggler in plaster as
photographed in Carrieri’s book. Perhaps
Marini remembered seeing the sculpture
itself at the Musée Rodin, a memory that
would have been triggered by the publication in 1939 of the monograph by Phaidon
Press, with an introduction by Sommerville
Story, one of a series notable for its lavish,
large-scale plates, and which Marini would
have known.40 Among the handsome images in this book, taken at the Musée Rodin
by the German photographer and artist Ilse
Schneider-Lengyel, were two views, front
and back, as well as a detail of the face
of Crouching Woman, together with other
works like the Cybele, or Study of a Seated Woman in plaster, which may also have
inspired Marini’s Jugglers (6.3, 6.4).41 The
Phaidon monograph offered suggestive
and wide-ranging examples of all Rodin’s
materials, formats and subjects and perhaps
inspired Marini with other ideas (the Small
Nude of 1939 may perhaps be related to
The Little Fairy of the Waters42 [6.5, 6.6]) but
in any case it was a crucial impulse towards
a less schematic vision of Rodin than that
6.5. Marino Marini
Small Nude, 1939.
Pistoia, Fondazione Marino Marini
6.6. Auguste Rodin
The Little Fairy of the Waters, 1903
(from Rodin, 1939)
6.7. Auguste Rodin
Torso of a Woman, circa 1890
(from A. M. Brizio, Ottocento Novecento, 1944)
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which dominated the 1930s in Italy, when
interest alternated between the portraits
and the monumental typology of the Thinker
and the Burghers of Calais.
The rediscovery in the late 1930s and early 1940s of an experimental Rodin, with
fragments, assemblages, surmoulages,
with small formats in plaster and terracotta that influenced many artists (including
Martini in his last period43), led to a critical
revision of Rodin himself. It is indicative
that for the 1944 re-edition of Ottocento
Novecento, Brizio, despite the rather few
modifications she made to the section on
the 19th century, nevertheless made important changes especially to the chapter
on Rodin, eliminating reproductions of the
Thinker and the Burghers of Calais and
adding three other images (one of them in
the twelve plates not included in the text)
of far more radical works, taken from the
6.8. Desiderio da Settignano
(historically attributed to Donatello)
Bust of Niccolò da Uzzano,
circa 1430, detail
(from Donatello, 1941)
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Phaidon book, which is further proof of the
latter’s wide circulation (6.7).44
During the early 1940s, Marini studied Rodin more carefully, encouraged by his stay
in Switzerland where the sculptors he befriended had been looking at the French
master’s work for some time, especially
Germaine Richier and Fritz Wotruba, and
by some important exhibitions, not least
the group show at the Kunsthalle in Bern
in which all three exhibited a selection of
work from the previous five years alongside
drawings by Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol and Rodin himself.45 The photograph of
Marini’s studio in Tenero taken by Wotruba
around 1945 (6.13), Marini’s bust and head
of Richier (6.X), and sculptures of Pomona
by Richier (6.XVI), well-known to have been
inspired by Marini’s nudes, are some documents of the close friendship of these three
artists.46
6.9. Bernardo Ciuffagni, Donatello
and Nanni di Bartolo
Joshua, formerly Poggio Bracciolini,
circa 1415–1420, detail
(from Donatello, 1941)
6.10. Donatello
Beardless Prophet, 1416–1418
(from L. Planiscig, Donatello, 1939)
Again, in the key year of 1943, Marini
signed the Complete Portrait [Ritratto intero], in which the unifying, wrapped effect
and the implication of a void beneath the
exterior in plaster were perhaps inspired
by the dressing gown worn by Balzac, and
began a new series of female nudes no
less evocative of works by Rodin.47 These
were mainly of small format, often fragmentary and of great vivacity in their poses, inspired perhaps by late studies in movement
in plaster or terracotta or by the plaster
cast of Rodin’s hand, whose fingers hold a
small female torso, headless, armless and
missing part of the legs, photographed by
Emmanuel Sougez for an album of Rodin’s
works that was printed several times beginning in 1933.48 Among this group was
a Small Nude, perhaps also reminiscent of
small sculptures by Edgar Degas, its linear
kneeling pose creating a pattern of lights
and shadows, which brings to mind works
by Rodin such as the Tragic Small (6.VI),
conceived for the monument to Victor
Hugo and also cast on a small scale. Marini
may have known this from seeing in person
the large version in bronze, still possessing its arms, preserved in the museum of
Geneva, or more generally from Richier’s
6. VII. Marino Marini, Archangel, 1943
6. VIII. Marino Marini, Archangel, 1943
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6.11. Marino Marini
Miracle (Gothic Cathedral), 1943.
Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Jesi Collection
(from G. Contini, Vingt scultpures
de Marino Marini, 1944)
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intense study of Rodin’s nudes over some
years, exemplified by a work such as The
Toad of 1940 (6.12).49
In 1944 Gianfranco Contini published a
small volume with a careful selection of
work carried out by Marini in Switzerland.
In light of the rough and expressively treat-
ed surfaces of the recent works, as well as
Marini’s interest in polychromy, Contini recognized the traits of a “poète de surfaces,”
whose force consisted in the penetration
of form and its internal expansion outwards
until its moment of impact, its sudden encounter, with the surrounding atmosphere.
Consistent with the development of his
work to date and now exposed to his new
Swiss environment, Marini evolved a balance between the abstract logic of form
and the naturalistic intensity of representation for “a greater vitalism [verdeur]” and
“a nostalgic pathos.”50 A similar connotation
of both vigor and melancholy appeared in
works published by Contini, such as the
Miracle (Gothic Cathedral) (6.11).51 To be
sure works such as these retained traces
both of a Gothic accent, which can also be
found in artists like Wotruba,52 and of the
portraiture of Rodin, perhaps studied first
hand in the presence of portraits of great
impact in the Kunstmuseum Basel such as
the Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo or, above all,
the monumental head of Pierre de Wiessant, whose pained expressiveness is owed
to the muscular forces of the twisted face,
in a pose typical of Marini’s sculptures.53
Nevertheless, from the beginning, commentators sensed the presence, in that period of
Marini’s work, of another source, remote but
not at all incompatible with either the vertical of Gothic or the extreme of Rodin.
In 1944 Alberto Sartoris traced a historical bridge for Marini’s “pensive sculpture,”
“from the miraculous and compact exemplariness of the irreverent ‘Zuccone’ of Donatello” to the “solemn and hieratic statues
of Marino Marini.”54 Donatello was of course
known to Marini, who would have nursed
memories, from the years of his training, of
the great hall of the first floor of the Bargello, reinstalled after the centenary exhibition of 1887.55 But between the 1930s and
1940s, one finds in art writing a very particular interpretation of Donatello. “Dramatic” or “impudent romanticism,” the “dizzying
ascent to inventive insolence and intensity
of expression,” “voracity of new expression,”
“impassioned and cruel art,” “energy [...]
swollen and burst out in expression”: with
such phrases Emilio Cecchi offered a penetrating profile of Donatello in his book of
6. IX. Desiderio da Settignano (historically attributed to Donatello), Bust of Niccolò da Uzzano, circa 1430
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1942. Cecchi swept from the field pseudohumanist commonplaces and reclaimed for
Donatello the “febrile work of the hand,”
giving rise to “frenetic innovation,” of which
the only possible precedent was, significantly, the work of Giovanni Pisano, champion of Italian Gothic. In a “subject laden
with time and the effort of living,” Donatello
showed the way to break the shackles of a
realism that threatened the slide of sculpture into anecdote; before works such as
the Niccolò da Uzzano (6.IX) or Habakkuk,
the immediate confidence with the familiar
type highlighted the novelty of a sculptor
who “recasts myth into the substance of
a transfigured humanity, into unexplored
psychology, into [both] trembling and ardent sensibility; which he interprets and
expresses in forms so convincing and decisive [that] they instantly become traditional
in their turn.”56 Donatello’s lesson consisted,
then, in the “courage of expression impas-
6.12. Germaine Richier
The Toad, 1940
(from M. Gasser, Das Werk / L’Œuvre, 1946)
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sioned and intransigent.”57 The repertoire of
notions with which Cecchi read Donatello
did not differ greatly from the vocabulary
of the art criticism on Rodin of the same
years. Cecchi might have been referring to
the French sculptor as well when speaking
of Donatello’s “extreme vigor and vibrancy
of contours.”58 Virgilio Guzzi underlined this
when, reviewing favorably Cecchi’s study in
Primato, he opened by affirming that “one
knows that Rodin bore a love for Donatello
that he could not hide” and that Donatello’s
name could not but circulate in the years
of the return of sculpture to the “romantically alive and dramatic nature” beyond all
archaism.59
The attention to Donatello’s most expressive features, in terms of a realism whose
more or less antique sources were selected
and filtered freely from sculpture to sculpture, could be found in other criticism of the
period: from the more cautious, as in Rezio
Buscaroli’s synopsis of 1942 which paid
particular attention to his Gothic roots, to
those more critical in which the knowledge
of the expressive power of Donatello was
implicit in evaluations of lack of finish or
hesitancy of taste.60
Ludwig Goldscheider’s preface to the volume on Donatello published by Phaidon in
1941 in the same series as that of 1939
on Rodin, and still today in Marini’s library,
focused above all on Donatello’s “expressive power,” and the late Donatello was significantly compared to Claus Sluter and to
North European Gothic.61 When looking at
the Miracle and the Archangels (6.11, 6.VII,
6.VIII), memory reverts, as has been suggested, to the sculptural typology of the
reliquary-bust and to some 15th-century
sources of the iconography of St. Bernardino of Siena.62 Nevertheless, the compositional device of the torsion of the head derives neither from these sources, nor from
the aforementioned portraiture of Rodin,
but actually from the more dramatic plastic
effects of Donatello, such as the painted
bust of Niccolò da Uzzano (now attributed
to Desiderio da Settignano; 6.IX). In particular, the photographs in the Phaidon Press
volume emphasize the chiaroscuro drama
of the sitter’s strong features and the cones
of shadow generated by the movement of
the head (6.8).63 In Schneider-Lengyel’s
plates for this volume, the angled viewpoint
from which she photographed details privileges torsions and enhances the structure
of light and shadow, such that even less
“expressionist” works like the head of the
Joshua from the Duomo of Florence (6.9)
draw close to the head of the Archangel,
not to mention the Habbakuk from Giotto’s
Campanile and the later St. Francis on the
Altar of the Santo in Padua.64 The effect,
like a tranche de vie, of the photographer’s
lens – an ‘eye’ trained on the work of Rodin
less than two years earlier – was to give
Donatello’s sculptures so strong a sense
of verity (compared to the more isometric
shots by Alinari and Brogi published by
Cecchi) that it has been speculated on at
least one occasion that each of them hide
portraits of real people. Similarly, Marini’s
Archangel combines strong spiritual and
emotional tension (thus explaining the titles
of his sculptures that year) with the physiognomy of his brother-in-law Gianni.
The expressive force and novelty of composition of the Archangel, in the version severed at the knees which was then still in the
museum in Basel (6.VIII), was documented
6. X. Marino Marini, Portrait of Germaine Richier, 1945
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6.13. Marino Marini’s studio in Tenero,
photographed by Fritz Wotruba, 1945
(Pistoia, Archivio Fotografico of the
Fondazione Marino Marini)
166
francesco guzzetti
from every angle in a formidable series of
photos published in Domus in 1947 to illustrate an article by Elio Vittorini, previously
published in Il Politecnico.65 These images
revealed Marini’s interest in the motif of the
knee-length figure, not new in itself, reconsidered on the basis of a concentrated and
essential severity. The unifying profile of the
mantle resolves the design, as if the poses
in mild contrapposto of the Prophets on
the Porta della Mandorla and of the closed
form of St. George in the Bargello, and the
gathering on the same page of the eight
Prophets for the campanile in Florence in
the book by Buscaroli, had left their trace
on Marini.66 The photos in Domus show the
hollowed out verso of the Archangel, as if
it were destined for an imaginary niche, to
which correspond the positioning of the
arms, the volumetric closure of the body
and the slight turn of the head that were
Donatello’s devices for fitting his figures
into real niches. Sometimes the photographs of the time show Donatello’s figures
cut exactly at the knees, to focus attention
on the expressive details and the chiaroscuro drama of sculptures that were in
any case elongated to compensate for the
foreshortening by original positions raised
high on Giotto’s campanile. The images of
St. John the Baptist in Florence and the
previously mentioned St. Francis in Padua
in the Phaidon book,67 or of the Jeremiah
from the campanile in the Alinari photographs published by Cecchi,68 but above all
that of the Beardless Prophet, similar to the
Archangel in its aura of melancholy severity,
in the 1939 monograph by Leo Planiscig, a
writer well-known to Italian sculptors (6.10),
testify to such an approach in picturing Donatello’s sculptures.69
Therefore, on the double track, strongly
intersecting, of Rodin’s and Donatello’s expressivity, Marini developed his own way
of looking at his sources to render plastic
expressionism. As has been noted, the expressionist component reverberated in the
pictorially fractured profile and the strong
chiaroscuro colorism of the surfaces, and
was based above all on a general rethinking of sculptural composition in order to
attain the equilibrium of both truth to form
and human truth, at a universal level. However much the stay in Switzerland may have
been a parenthesis, it left an enduring mark
on Marini’s work, as the poses and proportions of his female nudes or the expressivity
of the portraits made on his return to Milan
in 1946, that this section of the exhibition
comprises (6.XV), witness.
Today, after the reconstruction outlined
in the previous pages, it may seem less
6. XI. Marino Marini, Archangel, 1943
6. XII. Marino Marini, Portrait of Karl von Schumacher, 1944
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6. XIII. Marino Marini, Susanna, 1943
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6. XIV. Marino Marini, Juggler, 1944
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strange that it had been a painter, Filippo
de Pisis, who precociously invoked Donatello and Rodin as visual sources for Marini.
Although with very different intentions and
mainly concerning the Bacchus of 1935, de
Pisis wrote that “Donatello would have insisted perhaps a little more on the modeling
and on the refinement of the proportions;
Rodin would have contaminated it with
poorly digested literature and the sweet
face would palpitate no more in this stone.
And this is said simply to swap a few ideas
[before deciding] that before a true work of
art the best thing to do is to be silent.”70
I wish to thank Fabio Cafagna, Marcello Calogero,
Chiara Fabi, Luca Giacomelli, Lorenza Guiot of the
Cantonal Library of Locarno, Talia Kwartler of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Mattia Patti, Maria
Teresa Tosi.
Fabi 2013.
Marchiori 1953, p. 29.
3 Marino Marini 1998, no. 196.
4 This is the catalogue of the exhibition New Images of Man, edited by Peter Selz; see New York 1959,
p. 14. Selz, scholar of expressionism, defined Germaine Richier’s sculpture in this way in comparison to
Willem De Kooning’s paintings.
5 De Grada 1938.
6 Marino Marini 1998, nos. 124b, 133a. The portrait of
Vitali was reproduced in Vita Giovanile, year I, no. 12,
15 July 1938, p. 5.
7 Morosini 1938. The article was illustrated with reproductions of the Horse in bronze from the Della Ragione collection (1937) and with a previous state of
the Imaginary Portrait from the Marino Marini collection in Milan; see Marino Marini 1998, nos. 132, 140;
Fabi 2015, pp. 42–43.
8 A Portrait in bronze was illustrated in De Grada’s review of the Quadriennale in Rome of 1939, otherwise
entirely focused on painting (De Grada 1939), while
approval of the Horse in the Cardazzo collection – “it
has a structure all rigor but yet alive and warm” –
concluded a report from Venice by Umbro Apollonio
(Apollonio 1939). Lastly, in his review of the portfolio
of drawings by Marini published by the Edizioni del
Cavallino, Morosini could not but pick and appreciate
the ones in which “the mark is undoubtedly – in the
conventional sense – less pure: more obsessive [insistito] than that of the others, and fragmentary [...] of
a yet greater plastic vitality” (Morosini 1939).
9 Guttuso 1945.
10 Guttuso 1938, p. 103. The head was the Portrait
of Avvocato Vecchi, in Marino Marini 1998, no. 96b.
11 Guttuso 1940, p. 51; Guttuso, “La collezione Cardazzo alla Galleria di Roma,” L’Orsa, 27 May 1941,
reprinted in Guttuso 2013, p. 185. For the two works,
see Marino Marini 1998, nos. 147, 154b.
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2
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Venice 1948, p. 105. A corner of the room is reproduced in Marchiori 1953, plate XXI.
13 Guttuso 1948, p. 274. The article is accompanied
by the image of Young Girl of 1943 (ibidem, p. 275).
For the comparison between Marini and Manzù, see
Rome 1947, n. p.: “If one excepts Marino and two or
three younger artists, [Italian sculpture] found it easier to exert itself in rhetoric and sentimentalism; see
the archaic and rhetorical mode of Martini’s style, and
Manzù and his followers.” For the reception in Rome
of the two artists see Cinelli 2014.
14 M. De Micheli, “La protesta dell’Espressionismo,” in
Bahr 1945, pp. 5–21.
15 Il Politecnico 1945.
16 A. Martini, Scultura lingua morta, in Martini 1983,
p. 111.
17 The quotation comes from Piovene 1941, p. 39.
The Horse (ibidem, p. 36) was the version in terracotta of a work of 1939 (Marino Marini 1998, no. 155b).
See also Orlandini 1943.
18 Argan 1942.
19 Marino Marini 1998, no. 287; Fabi 2015, p. 46.
20 Giolli 1943, p. 82.
21 The catalogue of the exhibition in Rome listed
only a Head of a Woman in plaster (Rome 1943, no.
18, p. 31), reproduced in Emporium (Podestà 1943,
p. 262), similar to the Portrait of America Vitali in plaster.
22 Ponti 1943, p. 52.
23 Marino Marini 1998, nos. 187, 190, 201.
24 Marini 1939.
25 Genoa 1941b. Of the many reviews, see especially
that of Attilio Podestà, published in several magazines
(Podestà 1941) and above all P.V. 1941.
26 Bahr 1945, p. 15.
27 Vitali 1944b.
28 Vitali 1946, pp. 27–28.
29 Brizio 1939, p. 459.
30 Ibidem, p. 458; see Gengaro 1941, p. 11. Martini
spoke of Rodin on 6 September 1944 (Martini 2006,
p. 247).
31 Carrieri mentions it for the first time in his 1948
monograph on Marini; see Carrieri 1948a, p. 8.
32 See in this catalogue Section 2, “The male nudes
of the 1930s,” by Flavio Fergonzi.
33 Venice 1934, nos. 180–181, p. 48.
34 Pallucchini 1938; Marchiori 1938. The City of
Rome also purchased in 1914 Mask of the Man with
the Broken Nose; see Fergonzi 2005, pp. 46–47. In
1935, the Thinker and the Burghers of Calais were in
the central Pavilion of the Biennale Gardens for the
Mostra commemorativa dei Quarant’anni della Biennale (see Marchiori 1935; Moure Cecchini 2016).
35 Bourdelle 1937. Marini took part in the Exposition
Art Italien Moderne in Paris in 1929 and at the 1932
Venice Biennale in the Mostra degli Italiani a Parigi;
see Brescia 1998, p. 121. The Boxer purchased by
the Jeu de Paume is in Marino Marini 1998, no. 102.
36 Fergonzi 2005, pp. 45–46; Fabi 2012, n. p.
37 Marino Marini 1998, no. 161.
38 The book was published in German and English;
see Giedion-Welcker 1937, pp. 25, 164. For the author’s Italian contacts, see Mocchi 2015.
39 Carrieri 1948a, plate 17, p. 22; Marino Marini 1998,
no. 167.
40 The volume on Donatello in the same series, to
which we will return, is still in Marini’s library.
12
Rodin 1939, plates 30, 32–33, 74.
Ibidem, plate 66; Marino Marini 1998, no. 151.
43 Fergonzi 2013, pp. 249–253. Woman Swimming
Underwater recalls the plate of the Torso of Adèle in
Rodin 1939, plate 42; the book of 1939 could also be
the source of the photo of The Cathedral recalled by
Egle Rosmini in the Atmosphere of a Head.
44 Brizio 1944, figs. 326, 328, plate XI. The three works
were Torse d’Adèle (Torso of a Woman), Faunesse à genoux from the rear (Young Girl Kneeling) and La Femme
accroupie (Nude Woman); there were also a drawing of
a nude and L’Homme au nez cassé (The Man with the
Broken Nose), the portrait of Dalou, and the head of Balzac (ibidem, figs. 324, 325, 327), already included in the
previous edition. However, the illustrations for the latter
were also changed, and derived from the Phaidon book
(Rodin 1939, pp. 3, 30, 35, 38, 42, 80) to emphasize the
potent effects of light on surfaces.
45 Bern 1945. The year before, the three sculptors
together with Italian Arnold D’Altri exhibited at the
Kunstmuseum Basel (Vier ausländische Bildhauer in
der Schweiz, 14 October – 26 November 1944).
46 Wotruba’s photograph is in Verona 1994, p. 142.
For the portraits by Richier see Marino Marini 1998,
nos. 280, 289 and the entries in Fabi 2015, pp. 75–76.
On the relations between the two artists, see De Costa 2006, pp. 33–40.
47 The plaster is reproduced in Rodin 1939, plate 78.
For the Complete Portrait, see Marino Marini 1998,
no. 188.
48 See Sougez 1933, plates 1–2. The album was republished in 1941.
49 See Saint-Paul de Vence 1996, pp. 34–35, no. 7.
Richier exhibited the original plaster of The Toad in Bern:
see Bern 1945, no. 27 (repr. in Gasser 1946, p. 69). The
work by Marini is in Marino Marini 1998, nos. 204, 273.
50 Contini 1944, pp. IV, VII. On Marini’s polychrome
in Marini’s sculpture, see Guzzetti 2012, pp. 107–11.
51 Contini 1944, plate 4. Marino Marini 1998, no. 195.
52 See, in the exhibition in Bern, the standing figures of the 1940s and the Pan of 1943: Bern 1945,
nos. 37–44 (a view of the gallery is reproduced in
Wotruba 2012, p. 49).
53 The two works entered the museum respectively in
1906 and 1938 (Basel 1946, p. 139).
54 Sartoris 1944, p. 223.
55 Barocchi, Gaeta Bertelà 1986, pp. 110–121. Marini
talked about Donatello in his conversation with Egle
in 1959, in Marini 1998, pp. 21–22.
56 Cecchi 1942, pp. 6–8, 10, 14–16.
57 Ibidem, p. 21.
58 Ibidem, p. 18.
59 Mazzafionda 1943, p. 18.
60 Schaub-Koch 1941; Buscaroli 1942, pp. 63–100.
61 Donatello 1941, pp. 6–7, 14–16.
62 Verona 1994, pp. 17–18.
63 Donatello 1941, plate 53. See also ibidem, figs.
48–50, p. 23; Cecchi 1942, plate 23.
64 Donatello 1941, plates 23 (The so-called Poggio
Bracciolini), 50, 117, 119.
65 Vittorini 1947a–b.
66 Buscaroli 1942, plates III, XIII, XXV–XXXII,
pp. 163, 170, 178.
67 Donatello 1941, plates 28, 117.
68 Cecchi 1942, plate 10.
69 Planiscig 1939, plate 9.
70 de Pisis 1941a, n. p.
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6. XVI. Germaine Richier, Pomona, 1945
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Brescia 1998
Les Italiens de Paris, curated by M. Fagiolo dell’Arco,
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Florence 1930
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Arte sublime dell’antico Egitto, curated by M. Saleh
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Quinto Martini 1908–1990, curated by M. Fagioli
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Florence 2015
La luce della solitudine. Gianfranco Ferroni agli
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Scoperte e massacri. Ardengo Soffici e le avanguardie
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Frankfurt, Ascoli Piceno, Teramo, Chieti, Rome
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Piceni. Popolo d’Europa, curated by L. Franchi dell’Orto,
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Genoa 1941
Mario Mafai Marino Marini in una mostra nelle nostre
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Livorno 2008
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Arturo Martini, curated by C. Gian Ferrari, E. Pontiggia and L. Velani, exhibition catalogue (Milan, Palazzo
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Monza 1930
Catalogo Ufficiale della IV Esposizione Internazionale
Triennale delle Arti Decorative e Industriali Moderne
(Monza, May–October 1930), Milano, 1930.
New York 1948
Sculpture, exhibition catalogue (New York, Buchholz
Gallery, 28 September – 16 October 1948), New York,
1948.
New York 1949a
XXth-Century Italian Art, curated by J. T. Soby
and A. H. Barr, Jr, exhibition catalogue (New York,
The Museum of Modern Art, April–September 1949),
New York 1949.
Pescara 2002–2003
Massimo Campigli: pittura e archeologia, curated by
N. Campigli and R. Di Sabatino, exhibition catalogue
(Pescara, Museo d’Arte Moderna “Vittoria Colonna”,
15 December 2002 – 2 March 2003), Pescara, 2002.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1996
Germaine Richier. Rétrospective, curated by
J.-L. Prat, exhibition catalogue (Saint-Paul-deVence, Fondation Maeght, 5 April – 25 June 1996),
Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1996.
New York 1949b
Henri Matisse and Henry Moore (Buchholz Gallery),
New York, 1949.
Pordenone 2005
Ado Furlan 1905–1971. Lo scultore e le passioni del
suo tempo, curated by F. Fergonzi, exhibition catalogue
(Pordenone, Convento di San Francesco, 10 December
2005 – 26 February 2006), Milan, 2005.
Trieste 2007
Mascherini e la scultura europea del Novecento, curated by F. Fergonzi, A. Del Puppo, exhibition catalogue (Trieste, Civico Museo Revoltella e
Salone degli Incanti Ex Pescheria Centrale,
28 July –14 October 2007), Milan 2007.
New York 1949c
Pablo Picasso, recent work (New York, Buchholz Gallery, 8 March – 2 April 1949), New York, 1949.
New York 1950
Marino Marini, curated by J. T. Soby, exhibition catalogue (New York, Buchholz Gallery, 14 February – 11
March 1950), New York 1950.
New York 1951
Henry Moore (Buchholz Gallery, 6–31 March 1951),
New York, 1951.
New York 1953
Marino Marini, exhibition catalogue (New York, Curt
Valentin Gallery, 27 October – 21 November 1953),
New York 1953, n. p.
New York 1959
New Images of Man, curated by P. Selz, exhibition catalogue (New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 30
September – 29 November 1959), New York, 1959.
Nuoro 2012
Marino Marini. Cavalli e cavalieri, curated by L. Giusti,
A. Salvadori, exhibition catalogue (Nuoro, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 14 December 2012 – 24 February 2013),
Cinisello Balsamo, 2012.
Paris 1937
L’Italia all’Esposizione Internazionale di Parigi, Paris, 1937.
Paris 1953
Le Cubisme, curated by J. Cassou, B. Dorival, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne), Paris,
1953.
Paris 1986
La Sculpture française au XIXe siècle, curated by
A. Pingeot, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 10 April – 28 July 1986),
Paris, 1986.
Paris 2009
Oublier Rodin? La Sculpture à Paris 1905–1914, curated by C. Chevillot, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Musée
d’Orsay, 10 March – 31 May 2009), Paris, 2009.
Parma 2014
Manzù/Marino. Gli ultimi moderni, curated by
L. D’Angelo, S. Roffi, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione
Magnani Rocca, Parma 2014.
Rome 1931
I Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale. Catalogo generale,
Rome 1931.
Rome 1932
Galleria Sabatello. Mostra di Marino Marini
(Rome, 6–13 November 1932), Rome, 1932.
Rome 1935
Seconda Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale. Catalogo generale (Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,
February–July 1935), Rome-Milan, 1935.
Rome 1939
III Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale. Catalogo generale (Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, February–July
1939), Milan-Rome, 1939.
Rome 1943
IV Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale (Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, May–July 1943), Rome, 1943.
Rome 1947
Roberto Melli, foreword by R. Guttuso, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Galleria del Secolo, April–May 1947),
Rome, 1947.
Rome 1988
Mazzacurati e gli artisti di “Fronte”, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Palazzo del Rettorato, Città Universitaria, 15 March – 16 April 1988), Rome, 1988.
Rome 1991
Marino Marini. Antologica 1919–1978, curated by M.
Calvesi, E. Steingräber, exhibition catalogue (Rome,
Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, 7 March –19 May
1991), Rome, 1991.
Rome 1994–1995
Carlo Carrà 1881–1966, curated by A. Monferini,
exhibition catalogue (Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Moderna, 1994–1995), Milan, 1994.
Rome-Ardea 2016–2017
Manzu. Dialoghi sulla spiritualità con Lucio Fontana,
curated by B. Cinelli and D. Colombo, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo - Ardea, Museo Giacomo Manzù,
8 December 2016 – 5 March 2017), Rome, 2017.
Venice 1928
Catalogo della XVII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Venice, 1928.
Venice 1930
XVII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della città di
Venezia. Catalogo, Venice, 1930.
Venice 1932
XVIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte 1932.
Catalogo, Venice, 1932.
Venice 1934
XIX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte 1934.
Catalogo, Venice 1934.
Venice 1936
XX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte 1936.
Catalogo, Venice 1936.
Venice 1938
XXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di
Venezia. Catalogo, Venice 1938.
Venice 1948
XXIV Biennale di Venezia. Catalogo, Venice 1948.
Venezia 1952
XXVI Biennale di Venezia. Catalogo, Venice 1952.
Venice 1983
Marino Marini. Sculture, pitture, disegni dal 1914 al
1977, curated by M. De Micheli, exhibition catalogue
(Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 28 May – 15 August 1983),
Florence, 1983.
Verona 1994
Marino Marini. Mitografia. Sculture e dipinti 19361966, curated by C. Pirovano, exhibition catalogue
(Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, 1 December 1994 – 12
February 1995), Verona, 1994.
Verona 2007
Peggy Guggenheim. Un amore per la scultura, curated
by L. M. Barbero, exhibition catalogue (Verona, Fondazione Cariverona, February–April 2007), Verona,
2007.
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