Studio Arnaldo Pomodoro

The concerns of my work as an artist have always centered on the relationship between the individual sculpture and the space in which it is sited.

A sculpture, indeed, is the realization of a space of its own within the greater space in which it lives and moves. When a work transforms the place in which it is located, it takes on the valence of a true and proper witness of the times that spawned it, and thus places a mark on its context, enriching it with additional layers of memory.

Today I think of my sculptures as crystals, or nuclei, or as eyes, or signal fires; and I see them as relating to borders and voyages, to the worlds of complexity and imagination.

Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2008

foto Giorgio Boschetti

The Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro opens a new exhibition space in Milan, via Vigevano 9

01-02-2013 - 01-02-2013

On Tuesday 9 April 2013 the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro will inaugurate the new structure with a rare and evocative exhibition, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, entitled “A Disconcerting Form of Writing”. Arnaldo Pomodoro. Works 1954-1960, from 10 April to 28 June.

The exhibition documents Arnaldo Pomodoro’s first creative period, through twenty-eight reliefs in lead, silver and bronze as well as some drawings. After moving to Milan in 1954 the artist began to weave his schemes of signs in relief, creating visual situations at the limits of two and three dimensionality. The first number of the Foundation’s publication Quaderni della Fondazione will accompany the exhibition.

This initiative will be followed, after the summer, by an exhibition dedicated to Enrico Baj and his leading role in the artistic debates of the 50s and 60s.

Close by the Foundation’s archives and the artist’s studio, this exhibition space will operate as a real cultural centre, organizing exhibitions, meetings, conferences, book presentations and concerts. The proximity of the spaces will create an evocative artistic centre that, through the ancient courtyards of the canals, will knit the contiguity between the place where Pomodoro’s sculpture was born and where the Foundation documents and promotes his activity, simultaneously acting as a place of study and to discuss the major themes and great figures of the contemporary avant-garde.

Opening hours:

From Wednesday to Friday,

From 4pm – 7pm

FREE ENTRANCE

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Arnaldo Pomodoro. Il teatro scolpito

28-09-2012 - 28-09-2012

The volume, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Il teatro scolpito has been published recently. With over 600 pages it is edited by Antonio Calbi and published by Feltrinelli and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro and contains many essays and a large number of pictures that show all the 44 theatrical projects carried out by the artist from 1972 to today.

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