Marcello Mancuso

Marcello Mancuso’s sculptural practice emerges from a place where matter, gesture, and inner vision converge. Trained within the rigorous tradition of Italian metal casting and refined through decades of experimentation, Mancuso approaches bronze and aluminum not as inert materials but as living thresholds—surfaces where form becomes a vessel for memory, tension, and transcendence.

His works often originate from an intimate dialogue with absence: the void carved by wax, the negative space that precedes the cast, the silent interval in which the sculpture already exists in potential. Through the ancient technique of lost‑wax casting, Mancuso transforms this absence into presence, allowing each piece to retain the trace of its own becoming. The result is a body of work that feels simultaneously primordial and contemporary, rooted in craft yet open to metaphysical interpretation.

Recurring throughout Mancuso’s oeuvre is a search for equilibrium—between weight and lightness, fragility and endurance, individuality and relation. His forms often suggest wings, thresholds, or suspended tensions, evoking the moment in which two forces meet without collapsing into one another. This is not symbolism imposed from the outside; it is a structu...

Museo civico di Crema - (IT).
Museo del castello estense Ferrara - (IT)
Spazio Mondadori Venezia