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Death of the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro at almost 99 years old

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Known for its monumental bronze spheres, the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, has died. Moreover, He was going to be 99 years old.

He was one of the most eminent contemporary artists in Italy. Similarly, the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, famous in particular for his bronze spheres, died Sunday evening in Milan on the eve of his 99th birthday, announced his foundation on Monday. Similarly,

Training surveyor, he had forged his style from the 1950s by materializing abstraction in monumental rooms – columns, spheres, cubes … Furthermore, – often split, corroded or torn.

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emblematic works

His massive works, which are enthroned in many leading public spaces, from the Vatican death italian sculptor arnaldo pomodoro new to the United Nations, are immediately recognizable: brilliant and smooth bronze globes with scratched interiors which, according to him, refer to the superficial perfection of exterior and to the troubled complexity of interior.

In a note of condolences. the Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, said that the “injured” spheres of Pomodoro “today tell us about the fragility and complexity of the human and the world”.

The sphere that occupies a central place in the Pigna court of the Vatican museums, has an internal mechanism that turns with the wind. “In my work. I see the cracks, the eroded parts, the destructive potential that emerges from our time of disillusionment,” said Arnaldo Pomodoro.

In 1996, Italy offered the United Nations death italian sculptor arnaldo pomodoro new in New York a sculpture 3.3 meters in diameter, “sphere in the sphere”, as a gift. The work refers to the advent of the new millennium. said the UN: “a smooth external belly surmounted by complex interior forms”, and “a promise of rebirth of a less disturbed and less destructive world”, as explained by the artist.

Professor at Stanford. Berkeley

Other spheres are located in museums around the world or outside the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has the original work that Arnaldo Pomodoro had created in 1966 for the Montreal Expo, a work which launched its monumental sculpture project.

In addition to his spheres, Arnaldo Pomodoro had notably designed theater sets. He benefited from numerous retrospectives. his works were exhibited worldwide, as at the Universal Shanghai exhibition, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, at Young Museum in San Francisco or at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Winner of numerous prizes. he had also taught in the art departments of prestigious American universities, such as Stanford and Berkeley.

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Eden writes about global cultures, sharing her travels and insights from different countries, exploring traditions, food, and the beauty of diversity.
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