Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 23 June 1926) is an Italian sculptor. He was born in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930–2002) was also a sculptor.

Arnaldo Pomodoro
Pomodoro in Milan, 1975
Born (1926-06-23) 23 June 1926
NationalityItalian
OccupationSculptor
Years active1954—2005
Notable work
Sphere Within Sphere

Pomodoro designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece is topped with a fourteen-foot diameter crown of thorns which hovers over the figure of Christ.

Some of Pomodoro's Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, American Republic Insurance Company in Des Moines, Iowa, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, Berkeley, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Quotes

On Form and Movement:[6]

According to me, sculpture must be projected into space in order to remove, as far as possible, the weight from the material and the work's fixed base. I have always tried to express movement as an intensification of a condition of imbalance in order to create a striking contrast to any stasis or any reached or predictable order.

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Set design for theatre and opera

Honors and awards

Footnotes

  1. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 205. ISBN 978-8857233277.
  2. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 189. ISBN 978-8857233277.
  3. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 190. ISBN 978-8857233277.
  4. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 206. ISBN 978-8857233277.
  5. "Arnaldo Pomodoro. The Pietrarubbia Group: il fondamento, l'uso, il rapporto, 1975-1976". Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  6. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 199. ISBN 978-8857233277.
  7. International Sculpture Center website. 'Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award page'. Retrieved 24 January 2010.

References

  • Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces, University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 95.
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