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(1) Arnaldo Pomodoro
(b Morciano di Romagna, nr Pesaro, 23 June 1926). Sculptor, jeweller, stage designer and architect. In 1937 he entered the Istituto Tecnico per Geometri in Rimini and from 1945 to 1946 the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the Università degli Studi in Bologna. Until 1957 he worked in an architectural firm advising civil engineers working on the reconstruction of buildings after World War II. Between 1950 and 1954, however, he worked primarily as a jeweller and stage designer with his brother (2) Giò Pomodoro in Pesaro and began his first works in relief, which are characterized by a rough surface quality with detailed vegetal forms. During this time he became acquainted with Lucio Fontana and Enrico Baj in Milan, where he and his brother moved in 1954. The fine detailing of his jewellery later appeared in his bronze monumental sculptures. In 1960 Arnaldo met David Smith and Louise Nevelson during his first trip to the USA, and in 1961 he joined the group CONTINUITÀ. In response to the Sputnik artificial satellites, he executed his first bronze column, Voyager Column (2180*425 mm, 1959–60; priv. col., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 64), a metaphor for progress in space. He became preoccupied with the advance of technology and with his innovative notion of ‘negative spatiality’, whereby a void became a sculptural form.
Part of the Pomodoro family
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