Aube H.250cm Francesco Marino Di Teana

From the 1960s, Marino di Teana began a real work of exploration around the shape of the circle. He initially endeavored to break them down before creating the sculpture “Aube” in 1977, the most telling example of his tri-unitarian theory “1 + 1 = 3”. In this work, which marks a real plastic and aesthetic maturity of the artist, the energies are concentrated to the maximum, crystallized in the heart of a space charged with all the density and power of the composition.

Like the sunrise it evokes, it traces a ray of light, a hyphen linking sky and earth, lines and masses, voids and solids. Having become an iconic sculpture by the artist, it was produced in several sizes.

“This work is the most perfect and harmonious form created by Marino di Teana. The balance established here between mass and space is incomparable: we see the effect produced by two halves close together but not face to face, separated by a space which, in their interval, becomes geometric, shapeless and timeless because the shape is given to it by the contrast of the opposing masses”.

Tomás Alva Negri, in Marino di Teana, ed. by Arte Gaglione, Buenos Aires, 1987.

Cachet de l'artiste, daté et numéroté au dos "1977-81"
Edition de 8 exemplaires + 4 E.A.
Cette oeuvre a été éditée en 1995

Expositions :

Collioure, Château Royal, "Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine", mars-octobre 1986, reproduit en couleur p.81 (a similar copy)
Ixelles (Belgique), Musée d'Ixelles, "Amado Coulentianos - Jeanclos - Marino di Teana - Philippe Seguin, sculpteurs de France", février-avril 1987, reproduit en noir et blanc sous le n°12 (a similar copy)
Saarbrücken (Allemagne), Galerie moderne du musée de Saare, "Francesco Marino di Teana, plastiken 1955-1985, tableaux et modèles d'architecture", 1987, reproduit en noir et blanc pp. 150-151(a similar copy)
Paris, Galerie Artcurial, "Marino di Teana, sculptures 1960-1987", mars-avril 1988, Artcurial, Paris, reproduit en noir et blanc p.13 (a similar copy)
Neuchâtel, Galerie des amis des arts, "Salon du 150e anniversaire de la société des amis des arts", novembre 1992-janvier 1993, reproduit en couleur p.55 (a similar copy)
Paris, Grand Palais, ArtParis, Galerie Michèle Broutta, "Marino Di Teana, peintures, dessins, sculptures", mars-avril 2007 (a similar copy)