Mario Ceroli (1938) - La fila

Mario Ceroli (Castel Frentano, 1938) is one of the most solid names in Italian sculpture of the second half of the 20th century. Awarded for young sculpture at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1960, honored at the Venice Biennale in 1966, he has built over time a completely personal, recognizable, never imitable language.

His distinctive feature is the silhouette: stylized human figures carved in raw wood, often repeated in series, which have redefined the way sculpture is understood.

His works are in public and private collections around the world, from the Barilla Collection of Modern Art to the great Italian and international museum institutions. Collecting a Ceroli work means carrying with you an authentic piece of the history of contemporary Italian art.

Artwork in wood and metal - thin sheets of patinated brass and polished steel, laid in sequence on a wooden base - that brings to the table scale the same idea Ceroli brought to the grand museum installations: stylized human figures, repeated, that create presence through rhythm rather than mass. Impressed signature directly on the metal, with the numbering LXIX/C: exemplar 69 of 100. An artist's edition, yes, but with that execution quality that Ceroli has always demanded even for serial pieces.