Gino Corsanini, a sculptor “Beyond” ignorance
Gino Corsanini, a sculptor Beyond ignorance
Master Sculptor Gino Corsanini posing with one of his works
Oltre (“Beyond”) is not only the title of the most recent exhibition, curated by Vera Agosti and concluded a few days ago in the prestigious setting of Palazzo Calderara in Vanzago (MI), in which the maestro sculptor Gino Corsanini (1947-) participated (alongside Italo Mazzei and Francesca Lucchini), but also and above all a possible summary of the poetic horizon of the famous artist, who from his workshop in Mantegazza (Vanzago, MI) contributes vigorously to the innovation of world sculpture.
Gino Corsanini, Più niente da dirsi, granite, South Korea
Gino Corsanini, Liberazione, white marble, Pregnana Milanese
The allure of the sculptural art of maestro Gino Corsanini, who created and restored numerous works in Candoglia marble for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan, lies in a mysterious grace whereby figurative mastery is subservient to an inexhaustible experimental urge. The sensitive passion of the artist, Ligurian by birth and trained in the workshops of the Carrara quarries, is reflected both in his thematic choices—sometimes classical, sometimes astonishing in the philosophical implications of their orientalism—and in his refined mineral treatment, with forms at once robust and agile, supple and sharp, crafted not only from traditional metal alloys but also from the most diverse and sought-after marbles.
Gino Corsanini, Torsione, bronze, as displayed at Oltre 2025 in Vanzago
Gino Corsanini, Prigione, Iranian red travertine marble
The works exhibited at the Oltre exhibition, held in October 2025 in Vanzago, demonstrate a union between thematic classicism and formal avant-garde that is a constant in Corsanini’s work. However, what is particularly pertinent to the Italian-Chinese artistic-cultural exchange is the Taoist philosophical sensitivity evident in works such as Maternità e paternità (“Maternity and Fatherhood”), where the marble symmetries exalt the complementarity of opposites, in a cosmogonic balance between Yin and Yang that testifies to the universality of the maestro’s work.
Gino Corsanini, Maternità e paternità, pink marble and bronze, as displayed at Oltre 2025 in Vanzago
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In the exhibition “Oltre”, which focuses on feminine travails, one can admire the evolution of Corsanini‘s style, from classical Venuses to the writhing, stylized Moorish-influenced works, culminating in the total abstraction of works such as The Three Graces, bold in their classical titles yet utterly enigmatic in their aesthetic solutions. “The Three Graces – the artist explains to Pedone’s Vice President Stefano Giovannini – are crushed flat by the weight of ignorance, but their horizontal survival challenges the infamous logic, attributed to politician Tremonti, by which culture wouldn’t bring food on the table”.
Gino Corsanini, Le Tre Grazie, pink marble and granite, as displayed at Oltre 2025 in Vanzago
Corsanini’s work is not only a melting pot of philosophical reflections, but also one of the technical pinnacles of contemporary Italian sculpture, capable of bestowing grace upon black marble and sinuosity upon bronze, in a whirling dynamism that is both orthogonal in its entirety and holistically three-dimensional in its modular pseudo-bidimensionality.
Gino Corsanini, Ricerca Boehringer, white marble, Monza
Since a deep and scorching desire to communicate his works to the benefit of the viewer is the fuel of internationally envied maestro Corsanini‘s tireless activity, we felt an urge of inquiring into this noble motivation of his: “There are those who spend their lives on this side of the wall of ignorance: – the maestro enlightened us – my art incites people to climb it and look beyond it instead.”
Thanking you for your kind attention, the author is happy to remind you that to collect works by Gino Corsanini you can send an email to one of the following addresses indicating “Works by Gino Corsanini” (or similar wording) in the subject line:
stefanogiovannini87 [at] gmail.com, itpedone [at] gmail.com