Arnaldo Pomodoro
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
(b Morciano di Romagna, nr Pesaro, 23 June 1926). Sculptor, jeweller, stage designer and architect. In 1937 he entered the Istituto Tecnico per Geometri in Rimini and from 1945 to 1946 the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the Universit? degli Studi in Bologna. Until 1957 he worked in an architectural firm advising civil engineers working on the reconstruction of buildings after World War II. Between 1950 and 1954, however, he worked primarily as a jeweller and stage designer with his brother (2) Gi? Pomodoro in Pesaro and began his first works in relief, which are characterized by a rough surface quality with detailed vegetal forms. During this time he became acquainted with Lucio Fontana and Enrico Baj in Milan, where he and his brother moved in 1954. The fine detailing of his jewellery later appeared in his bronze monumental sculptures. In 1960 Arnaldo met David Smith and Louise Nevelson during his first trip to the USA, and in 1961 he joined the group CONTINUIT?. In response to the Sputnik artificial satellites, he executed his first bronze column, Voyager Column (2180*425 mm, 1959-60; priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 64), a metaphor for progress in space. He became preoccupied with the advance of technology and with his innovative notion of 'negative spatiality', whereby a void became a sculptural form.
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
Arnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. He was born on 23 June 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He currently lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930–2002) was also a sculptor.
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 in 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 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 and the Tel Aviv University, Israel.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, he has created sculptory for the Amaliehaven park which was inaugurated on the waterfront in fron of Amalienborg Palace in 1983. His thematic work "Forme del Mito" (Forms of Myth) [below] was displayed at Brisbane's World Expo '88 and was later purchased by Brisbane City Council for the City of Brisbane. Museum of Outdoor Arts also has a piece by Pomodoro in their collection entitled "Disco Emergente" which is on permanent public display in Greenwood Village, CO USA.
In 1999 he founded Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan. Originally conceived as a centre to document and archive the work of the artist, it opened an exhibition space in 2005, hosting exhibitions of prominent artists such as Jannis Kounellis. The director of Fondazione Pomodoro is Flaminio Gualdoni.
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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 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
Honours and awards
- International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, 2008.[1]
Gallery
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Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in the Cortile della Pigna, Vatican, Rome.
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Traveler's Column by Arnaldo Pomodoro (background: Begotten, Forgotten by Terry Ward) at Smithsonian-affiliated Annmarie Garden, Solomons, MD, USA.
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One of four columns by Pomodoro in the Amaliehaven park in Copenhagen, Denmark
Footnotes
- ^ 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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