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 | |
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Pomodoro in Milan, 1975 | |
Born | |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Sculptor |
Years active | 1954—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
- Semiramide by Gioacchino Rossini (1982), Teatro dell'Opera of Rome
- Orestea di Gibellina by Emilio Isgrò, on a text by Eschilo (1983–1985)
- Didone by Christopher Marlowe (1986)
- Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1987), Teatro dell'Opera of Genoa – stage and costumes
- Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky (1988), Siena
- La Passione di Cleopatra by Ahmad Shawqi, an Egyptian poet (1989)
- I Paraventi by Jean Genet (1990), Teatro Comunale of Bologna – stage and costumes
- Nella solitudine dei campi di cotone by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1992)
- Più grandiose dimore by Eugene O'Neill (1993)
- Oreste di Vittorio Alfieri (1993)
- Stabat Mater, La passione secondo Giovanni and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Antonio Tarantino (1994–1995)
- Moonlight by Harold Pinter (1995)
- Drammi Marini by Eugene O'Neill (1996)
- Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1996)
- Tempesta (The Tempest) by William Shakespeare (1998) – stage and costumes
- Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi (2005), Opernhaus of Lipsia – stage and costumes
- Teneke by Fabio Vacchi (2007), Teatro alla Scala of Milan – stage and costumes
Honors and awards
- International Prize for Sculpture, VII São Paulo Biennale, 1963.
- National Prize for Sculpture, XXXII Venice Biennale, 1964.
- International Prize for Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, 1967.
- Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, Japan Art Association, 1990.
- Honorary degree in Literature, Trinity College, 1992.
- The Knight of the Great Cross of the Italian Republic, 1996.
- International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, 2008.[7]
Gallery
- Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in Trinity College, Dublin
- One of four columns by Pomodoro in the Amaliehaven park in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Arnoldo Pomodoro, 1965
Footnotes
- Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 205. ISBN 978-8857233277.
- Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 189. ISBN 978-8857233277.
- Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 190. ISBN 978-8857233277.
- Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 206. ISBN 978-8857233277.
- "Arnaldo Pomodoro. The Pietrarubbia Group: il fondamento, l'uso, il rapporto, 1975-1976". Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- Arnaldo Pomodoro. Milano: Skira editore. 2017. p. 199. ISBN 978-8857233277.
- 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.
External links
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