From Campobasso, at the age of fifteen, Gino Marotta moved to Rome, where he came into contact with the artists who animate the Roman scene. Here, in 1960, he founded the CRACK Group together with Cascella, Dorazio, Mauri, Novelli, Perilli, Rotella and Turcato.

“I am convinced that the cultural climate of Rome after the 1960s would have been much more bleak without the great thematic inventions of Gino Marotta,” said critic Pierre Restany. Indeed Marotta, animated by his own admission by “an uncontrolled curiosity” and by an idea of ​​”art as a synthesis of nature and artifice”, has devoted himself incessantly to the experimentation of new materials, up to the point of using methacrylate . Methacrylate for him becomes a privileged medium. He describes it as “the only material that does not degenerate, because it is highly technological”. With this material he creates a surprising cycle of works, a sort of fluorescent bestiary, consisting of two-dimensional and transparent plates, placed in orthogonal sections, which give three-dimensionality to the sculptures and allow the rapid passage of light.