Over a period of four decades, from the 1930s-‘60s, the Italian artist Marino Marini (1901-80) returned again and again to the subject of horse and rider.
For him it was rich with meaning. Ancient and powerful, it provided him with a perfect subject for figurative sculpture in the modern age.
Robilant + Voena’s exhibition Marino Marini: Horses, Horsemen and Female Nudes (February 27-May 18) takes his 1937 plaster cast Gentiluomo a cavallo as a starting point.