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
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The Pietrarubbia Group at the Storm King Art Center of Mountainville, New York
08-02-2012
The work The Pietrarubbia Group, gift of Dr Herbert Kayden in memory of his wife and of her love for art and for scientific research, has been installed at the Storm King Art Center, the wide sculpture park located only one hour north of Manhattan.
The sculpture, dated 1976, is connected and dedicated to Pomodoro’s birthplace and to the medieval village of Pietrarubbia in the Montefeltro region.
The work, referring to the primordial relationship with earth and history, is made of three elements: The Foundation, a fixed block in two parts: The Use, a fixed block in two parts: The Relationship, a doubled and movable block.
(www.stormking.org)
The Obelisco installed in Pietrarubbia
Pietrarubbia
10-06-2011
The Obelisk conceived in 1989, thinking back to the columns of ancient Rome and realized in steel with insertions of bronze elements, has been installed in Pietrarubbia, in the Montefeltro region. With its 14 meters height and with the huge cart sustaining it, the Obelisk is a hollow volume with a squared base and with the four vertical sides emblazoned by a sequence of emblematic sculptural reliefs. Sited at the entrance of the village, the sculpture is a "signal" fluttering and marking the horizon.
Winery, 2003-2011
02-04-2003
This project, now in the course of realization, was commissioned by the Lunelli family -the producers of Ferrari Sparkling Wines -for Castelbuono Vineyards, in the medieval town of Bevagna. The project presents itself as an entirely new experience for Pomodoro. While visiting the site of the vineyards in the midst of Umbria's gentle hills, he struck upon the notion of a form that's reminiscent of a turtle -a symbol of longevity and stability -and which couples the feeling of an archaic presence with a structure that functions as a vast and effective roof. The construction of the winery, now well advanced, required careful study and a thorough-going collaboration with a team of architects and engineers, so as to harmonize artistic invention with the structural and functional elements of the technically best facilities for the production and storing of wines.
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