Arnaldo Pomodoro passed away last night, Sunday 22 June, in Milan on the eve of the completion of his 99 years, in his home. This was communicated by the foundation that bears its name, directed by Carlotta Montebello.
Among other things, the sculptor, known for his iconic bronze spheres, was in fact born on June 23, 1926 in Montebello di Romagna. ” With the disappearance of Arnaldo Tomato the world of art loses one of his most authoritative, lucid and visionary voices, the general director of the Foundation recalls.
“The master leaves an immense legacy, not only for the strength of his work, recognized internationally, but also for the consistency and intensity of his thought, capable of looking to the future with tireless creative energy,” writes Carlotta Montebello who recalls a tomato phrase. “I never believed in the foundations that celebrate a single artist as Unicum. The artist is part of a culture fabric, his active contribution can never come without and this is why I conceived my foundation as an active and alive place of cultural processing, as well as as a documentation center of my work, capable of making original proposals and not only of passively preserving. But the best is yet to come: this has been only a beginning and in my intentions the project – aimed at young people and the future – must be rooted, make continuity an unavoidable element … “, the artist wrote. ” The Foundation, born from this vision and strong of the direction traced by Arnaldo Pomodoro over the course of thirty years, will continue to operate according to the will of the founder, guaranteeing the conservation and enhancement of his work, committing himself to spreading his material and immaterial heritage through the creation of exhibitions, events and initiatives in an inventive, almost experimental space, of study and comparison on the themes of art and sculpture, which aims at a sculpture, Involvement, profound and global, with people and society you will miss Arnaldo to all of us and we will treasure your teachings “, concludes the general director Carlotta Montebello. Arnaldo Pomodoro, the older brother of Giorgio ‘Giò Pomodoro, also sculptures, first makes a studio as a surveyor to discover his passion for metal and sculpture soon. Goldsmith at first, it is in the 1950s that he began to create the first great shapes after the transfer to Milan since 1954 when he began to weave his relief sections in relief by creating visual situations at the limit between bi-dimension and three-dimensions. “For me – the artist had already been ultranening years old – it was a very dense period of intellectual exchanges”. With Lucio Fontana and others he founds the continuity group. Today his works are exhibited everywhere in the world. The last great exhibition in 2023 in collaboration with Fendi, at the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Maison who had also chosen one of his most significant environmental works, entry into the labyrinth, for the headquarters in via Solari in Milan.