Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini (Treviso 1889 _ Milan 1947) wrote this to a painter friend of him: "An artist is a god and to be treated as such, it's necessary to challenge the world." Even in hard times, he let off steam by writing to his friends, "unfortunately, money has not arrived yet, and as I have some clay for a plaster work that I can't transport because I have no money, I let off steam by drawing." Martini challenged the world and won. He always did. This book includes some of the most extraordinary works of that difficult period in his life and documents his approach to the Etruscan world and the 'discovery' of the hot and malleable terracotta, with which he created some of the most beautiful sculptures of his artistic path. The volume also includes works made of bronze, plaster and white clay with amazing plastic and light effects such as the extraordinary and inedited Testa di marinaio (1934-35). A selection of works created by the greatest Italian sculptor of the twentieth century. An artist who subverted the rules of sculpture by changing the canons of plastic creation.