Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. He was born on 23 June 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He currently lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930-1993) was also a sculptor.

Pomodoro designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece is topped with a fourteen foot in diameter crown of thorns which hovers over the figure of Christ.

Some of Pomodoro's "Sphere Within Sphere" (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University of California, Berkeley. His thematic work "Forme del Mito" (Forms of Myth) [below] was displayed at Brisbane's World Expo '88 and was later purchased by Brisbane City Council for the City of Brisbane.

In 1999 he founded Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan. Originally conceived as a centre to document and archive the work of the artist, it opened an exhibition space in 2005, hosting exhibitions of prominent artists such as Jannis Kounellis. The director of Fondazione Pomodoro is Flaminio Gualdoni.

et design for theatre and opera

*"Semiramide" by Gioacchino Rossini (1982), Teatro dell'Opera of Rome
*"Orestea di Gibellina" by Emilio Isgrò, on a text by Eschilo (1983-1985)
*"Didone" by Christopher Marlowe (1986)
*"Alceste" by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1987), Teatro dell'Opera of Genova - stage and costumes
*"Oedipus rex" by Igor Stravinsky (1988), Siena
*"La Passione di Cleopatra" by Ahmad Shawqi, an Egyptian poet (1989)
*"I Paraventi" by Jean Genet (1990), Teatro Comunale of Bologna - stage and costumes
*"Nella solitudine dei campi di cotone" by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1992)
*"Più grandiose dimore" by Eugene O'Neill (1993)
*"Oreste" di Vittorio Alfieri (1993)
*"Stabat Mater", "La passione secondo Giovanni" and "Vespro della Beata Vergine" by Antonio Tarantino (1994-1995)
*"Moonlight" by Harold Pinter (1995)
*"Drammi Marini" by Eugene O'Neill (1996)
*"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh (1996)
*"Tempesta" by William Shakespeare (1998) - stage and costumes
*"Un ballo in maschera" by Giuseppe Verdi (2005), Opernhaus of Lipsia - stage and costumes
*"Teneke" by Fabio Vacchi (2007), Teatro alla Scala of Milan - stage and costumes

Gallery

References

* Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 95.

External links

* [http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_130.html Arnaldo Pomodoro biography]
* [http://www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro]