Portrait of Sigfried Rosengart

“A form appears before my eyes, a profile; the first thing is the kind of form it is, whether round or elongated. These are essential elements, you must discover them at once and fix them in your brain. After this I enter into the spirit of the sitter, and here lie the difficulties, of imagining this physiognomy in the space of humanity, that is, what it represents in relation to other men, to other human personalities; that said, everything is done. This truth must hold out in me until the portrait is complete. The result must satisfy me as regards vitality of expression and the realisation of the true and characteristic lines of the sitter...”. With these words about his portraiture, Marino himself sums up the most stimulating motives of his sculpture-making: the formal requirement proper, in its most genuine and simple elements, and at the same time a profound adherence, caustic and affectionate, to the distinctive values of man.