involution Sculpture

Francesco Marinaro is a sculptor who lives and works in Turin, Italy. His artistic research revolves around the monkey; emblematic animal with a thousand facets which in Marinaro's works take on different meanings: figures in which man and animal merge. Multiple levels of reading, expression of the ferocity of instinct and human sweetness, works full of feeling that address profound themes but always with a pinch of irony. It transforms the most famous works of art into records, bringing them back to their "primordial" form, such as "The Girl with the Turban" by Vermeer or the works of Caravaggio. He gives shape to feelings by always including the monkey as the main element in dreamy poses full of sweetness and at times melancholic. In the "Inside Me" series the monkey is locked inside the human body, as if to underline even more how much we are linked to the animal world and what true human nature is.