bronze, golden patina, incised on the base with the artist's signature, date and number proof), diameter 60 x 18 cm, base 50 x 50 x 5 cm
This work is registered in the Archivio Arnaldo Pomodoro,
Milan, no. AP 679.
Provenance:
Artist's studio
Private Collection, New York
thence by descent to the current owner
Exhibition:
Brescia, Manuela Allegrini arte contemporanea, Arnaldo Pomodoro,
8 April - 27 May 1995, illustrated pp. 28, 29 (another from the edition exhibited, ill.)
Milan, Galleria Giò Marconi, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited)
Zurich, Gallery Semiha Huber, Arnaldo Pomodoro,
1 November - 1 December 1996 (another from the edition exhibited, ill.)
Pisa, Museo delle Sinopie, Palazzo OPA, 2015-2016 (plaster exhibited and ill.)
Literature:
A. Clerici, "Il gioiello è una scultura", in Italia Orafa, Milan, June 1995
ill. page 90 (another from the edition)
A. Colombo, "Il cielo in una sfera", in Luoghi dell'infinito, Avvenire,
no. 20, vol. III, Milan, June 1999, ill. page 30
F. Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Catalogo ragionato della scultura, vol. II, Milan 2007, no. 913, page 714 (another from the edition ill.)
The power of Pomodoro's work thus reads in two things. The first is the controlled violence of the little signs, arranged in strict but not regular formation, in mobile and yet complicated patterns, clear and penetrating; The second is the magnitude of a geometric shape.
Burri, who often delves into the demonic abyss only, Pomodoro and other sculptors bronze eruptions share commonalities with the painter to be redeemed by an innate aesthetic. "
AT THE. Hammacher, Sulla "scrittura", 1969