Arnaldo Pomodoro



Studio Arnaldo Pomodoro

Via Vigevano 5

20144 Milano

P.I. 06954720154


Tel: 02-58.10.41.31

Fax: 02-89.40.13.03

info@arnaldopomodoro.it


Copyright & credits

All rights reserved under international copyright conventions. No part of this web site may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from Studio Arnaldo Pomodoro.


Powered by Simply.it srl



Biography of Arnaldo Pomodoro

1932

Arnaldo  with his parents and his brother Giò.

1948

With his brother Giò and his sister Teresa, in a photo taken in Orciano.

1954

Opening of Arnaldo's studio in via Visconti di Modrone, in Milan. Arnaldo with Lucio Fontana.

© Fotogramma

1955

Arnaldo Pomodoro with his brother Giò at work in the studio in via Visconti di Modrone.

 © Fotogramma

Arnaldo with Igor Stravinskij at the opening of his exhibition at Galleria dell'Obelisco in Rome.


© Bosio Press Photo

1958

The Venice Biennale, Arnaldo with Gianni Bertini and Alberto Burri.

© Ugo Mulas

1961

Arnaldo Pomodoro with the work The Wheel, in front of his studio in via Orti, Milan.

© Mario Dondero

1962

In the Italsider factory Lovere, working on the Voyager's Column

© Italsider Lovere

1963

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Sphere no. 1

© Ugo Mulas

1964

Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti in Pomodoro's one-man room at the XXXII Venice Biennale.

© Giorgio de Cesare

1965

Arnaldo Pomodoro at work on the Large Disk in his studio in via Lamarmora 15, Milan.

© Ugo Mulas

1966

Arnaldo Pomodoro with James Baldwin at Feltrinelli's house, Milan.

© Orfini

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Gregory Corso.

© Teresa Pomodoro

At work on the model of the Large Sphere, 1966-1967

© Carlo Orsi

1970

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Ettore Sottsass in his house in via Commenda, designed by Sottsass, Milan.

© Ugo Mulas

1971

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Louise Nevelson, New York.

1976

Visit of the students of the Department of Visual Arts of Georgia - Athens University to the studio in via Vigevano, Milan.

1979

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Inge Feltrinelli at Valerio Adami's exhibition.

© Maria Mulas

1983

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Vittorio Gregotti at the opening of  his studio in via Vigevano, Milan, renovated by Gregotti.

© Edoardo Mari

1984

Forte di Belvedere, Florence, 1984. Installation of the work Triade

© Carlo Orsi

1985

Arnaldo Pomodoro, Andrea Cascella, Fausto Melotti and Pietro Consagra in Milan.

1990

The awarding of the Praemium Imperiale 1990, Tokyo. The laureates in the photograph: James Stirling, Antoni Tà pies, Federico Fellini and Arnaldo Pomodoro

With Giulio Carlo Argan in the Courtyard of the Pine Cone, the Vatican Museums, on the occasion of the installation of  Sphere within a Sphere, 1990

© Carlo Orsi
 

1991

Arnaldo Pomodoro and Francesco Leonetti in front of Field of Rage exhibited at the Festival 'Milanopoesia'.

© Carlo Orsi

1993

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Alighiero Boetti.

© Carlo Orsi

1994

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Rita Levi Montalcini at the opening of his show at Galleria 2RC in Rome.

© Agenzia Dufoto

1995

Arnaldo Pomodoro with President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and the Mayor of Pietrarubbia, Maria Assunta Paci, on the occasion of the visit to the Quirinale to present the activities of Centro TAM.

1996

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Ornella Vanoni at the opening of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation.

1998

Federico Zeri and Arnaldo Pomodoro at the presentation of the Project for 'Porta dei Re', at Palazzo Comitini, Palermo.

© Carlo Orsi

Arnaldo Pomodoro in Rome at the unveiling of Large Sphere in front of the Farnesina Palace, with Giovanna Melandri, Lamberto Dini, Maria Pia Fanfani and Francesco Rutelli.

© Gaetano Silvestri

2001

At work on the plaster model of Novecento in the laboratory in Via Solari 35, Milan

© Carlo Orsi

Arnaldo with Gillo Dorfles, Milan.

© Vincenzo Aloisi

2002

Assembly of the sculpture Novecento, Rome, piazzale Pier Luigi Nervi.

© Carlo Orsi

Unveiling of the Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In the picture, besides Mr. and Mrs. Meijer, the artists present in the collection: Mark Di Suvero, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Richard Hunt, Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg e Carolyn Ottmers

2003

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Cavalier Luigi Zunino and the architect Sir Norman Foster in the construction site of Milan Santa Giulia.

© Dialmo Ferrari

2004

Rome, October 23rd, 2004. Arnaldo Pomodoro with the Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, at the unveiling of Novecento.

© Carlo Orsi

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Fernanda Pivano on the occasion of awarding of 'Premio Santa Margherita Ligure Fernanda Pivano.

2005

Rome, May 17th, 2005. Arnaldo Pomodoro receives the gold medal from Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Republic, and from Rocco Buttiglione, Minister for Cultural Assets with '1st Class Diploma  for Service to Schools, Culture and Art'.

Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, September 23rd, 2005. Opening of the exhibition 'La scultura italiana del XX secolo'. Arnaldo Pomodoro with Alessandro Profumo, Pierluigi Cerri and Massimo Vitta Zelman.

© Claudio Mangiarotti

2006

Arnaldo Pomodoro and Jannis Kounellis during the installation of Kounellis' s exhibition at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation.

© Carlo Orsi

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Ermanno Olmi at the opening of his exhibition in Belluno.

With the architect Pierluigi Cerri at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Milan, opened in Autumn 2005, Milan 

 

© Luca Campigotto

2007

Milan, December 6, 2007. Arnaldo Pomodoro with President Giorgio Napolitano and Roberto Formigoni on the occasion of the visit to the Altra Sede of the Lombardy Region.

© Archivio Federico Brunetti

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Yasar Kemal, at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Milan.

© Dialmo Ferrari

2008

San Francisco, 2008. Arnaldo Pomodoro with Aldo Nove, on the occasion of the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony at the International Sculpture Center.

© Federica Fracassi

New York , Arnaldo Pomodoro with Mark Di Suvero.

© Ermanno Casasco

Arnaldo Pomodoro with Bruno Corà , in front of Large Portal, Milan.

© Vaclav Sedy

2009

Arnaldo with Jacqueline Risset and Umberto Todini at the opening of his exhibition in Rome.

 

Unveiling of Enrico Baj’exhibition at the  Marconi Foundation, Milan, 2009

With Germano Celant 

 

© Ummarino&Ummarino

 

With  Bruno Di Bello, Mario Perazzi, Giorgio Marconi, Giuseppe Maraniello, Lucio Del Pezzo

 

© Ummarino&Ummarino

Arnaldo Pomodoro in the construction site of the wine cellar “Cantina” in Bevagna, with the architect Giorgio Pedrotti

2010

Arnaldo with Beverly Pepper and Carlo Lorenzetti during the workshop dedicated to Giovanni Carandente, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

With Romano Prodi on the occasion of the unveiling of  the sculpture Croce at Centro San Domenico in Bologna

2011

With Gillo Dorfles, the architect Giorgio Pedrotti, Alessandro Lunelli and other collaborators, in the construction site of the wine cellar “Cantina” in Bevagna 

 

© Dialmo Ferrari

Arnaldo with Mark Di Suvero, Pier Guerci and Pier Luigi Loro Piana, for the positioning of the work The Pietrarubbia Group: il fondamento, l’uso, il rapporto, in the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York (www.stormking.org)

Rome, November 9th, 2011. Arnaldo Pomodoro receives the "Vittorio De Sica Award for Sculpture" from the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano

Federica Fracassi recites the verses of Aldo Nove, within the environment Ingresso nel Labirinto, during the inauguration of the work at the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro.

 

Flaminio Gualdoni discussing the history and the future of the Fondazione with Arnaldo Pomodoro. This long interview has then been published by Con-fine editions with the title Vicolo dei Lavandai.

Installation of the work Obelisk "Cassodoro" in the Vittoriale Park in Gardone Riviera, on loan to the Fondazione dannunziana.

 

2012

 

The Vatican, October 11, 2012. His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI meets with Arnaldo Pomodoro, as a representative of the world of art, at the end of the celebrations for the opening of the Year of Faith.

New York, December 7, 2012. Conferment of the Grand Award of Merit from American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit. From left:  Ronald Spogli, former United States Ambassador to the Italian Republic, Fabrizio Michelassi, surgeon-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Lucio Caputo, ASILM’s President, Antonin Scalia, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Arnaldo Pomodoro.