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Arnaldo Pomodoro
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Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano in Romagna in 1926, his childhood and youth were spent in Montefeltro, he then moved to Milan in 1954 where he still resides today. His works are present in the larger public collections around the world and there have been some determining influences (Klee, Burri, Giacometti…) in the development of his sculpture. The form unfolds inside a shape (columns, discs, spheres, cubes) which reveals itself through lacerations, openings and recesses that absorb the external light. His main exhibitions took place in Milan at the Rotonda della Besana in 1974, at the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 1976, at Fort Belvedere in Florence in 1984, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 1987, at Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1994, at the Rocca Malatestiana in Cesena and at the Museo della Città di Rimini in 1995, at the Marlborough Gallery of New York in 1996 and at the Jardins du Palais-Royal di Parigi in 2002. Remembering also travelling exhibitions throughout the museums of America, Europe, Australia and Japan. His works can also be found worldwide in large public squares and important spaces such as: “Disco Solare” in front of the Youth Palace in Moscow, “Sfera con sfera” with a diameter of 3.30 metres, in front of Onu’s Building in New York, “Papyrus” in the gardens of the new Post and Telecommunications Building in Darmstadt, the entrance to the Duomo di Cefalù “Porta dei Re”, “Torre a forma di spirale” 21 metres, in Rome, “Sfera con sfera” 4 metres, in the Cortile della Pigna dei Musei Vaticani and “Sfera” in front of the Farnesina in Rome. Pomodoro has also won numerous awards: in 1963 in San Paolo, at the Biennale di Venezia in 1964, one of six awards at the Carnegie Institute in 1967, the Henry Moore Grand Award in Japan in 1981, in 1990 he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture from the Japan Art Association. A Diploma in Literature honoris causa from Trinity College Dublin in 1992 and the title of Honorary Member of the Accademia di Brera Milan in 1993, furthermore in 1996 he was nominated Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine “Al merito della Repubblica Italiana”. He has also dedicated himself to scenery for important theatre occasions amongst which we mention the scenes for “Drammi Marini” by Eugene O’Neil, “Antigone” by Jean Anouilh in1996 and “The Tempest” by Shakespeare in 1998. Particular attention to the new space of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro is warranted, about 3,500 square metres in the ex factory space Riva & Calzoni in the area “Ansaldo – Città della Cultura”, which will be inaugurated the 23rd September 2005 with the exhibition “La scultura italiana del XX secolo” created by Arnaldo Pomodoro and organizzed by Marco Meneguzzo. Subsequently works from the permanent collection of the Foundation on rotation and temporary exhibitions will then be proposed for this same space.
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