The brilliant artist died in Milan: today he would have done 99 years.
Born in Morciano, He had moved soon with his family to the Marche. His symbol of Pesaro and the funeral monument of Fellini.
Arnaldo Pomodoro passed away last night, Sunday 22 June, in his home in Milan, on the eve of the fulfillment of his 99 years. He communicated it, this morning, The Foundation that bears its name. The sculptor, known, among other things, for its iconic bronze spheres, The 23 June of 1926 in Morciano di Romagna, Municipality of the Rimini hinterland (Here his most iconic works between Emilia Romagna and Marche).
Childhood and adolescence between Pesaro and Rimini
A few months after its birth, The family moves to Orciano di Pesaro, where Arnaldo spends his childhood. Who, the 17 November 1930 his brother Giorgio was born, that in art it will be the tomato, sculptor, goldsmith, engraver and scenographer, died in Milan on 21 December 2002. In 1937 Arnaldo returns to Romagna; More precisely in Rimini, where he attends the middle school and then the technical institute
for surveyors. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Back to Pesaro.
Is passionate about reading contemporary Italian and foreign authors, including Vittorini, Pavese, Hemingway, faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald. The war is concluded, Tomato gets a surveyor diploma and enrolls in
Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Bologna. Works on Civil Engineer of Pesaro, with consultancy assignment for the reconstruction of public buildings; between the 1949 and the 1952 He attended the Pesaro art institute, where his strong interest in the scenography. Law, meanwhile, classic and modern theatrical texts (Aeschylus, Sartre, Brecht).
The transfer to Milan
In 1953 Leave Pesaro, called to work in Como for six months. In 1954 moves to Milan e, Three years later, definitively abandon the civil genius: Together with his brother Giò, Find a study in the Milanese city. Who, The two will work together for about ten years.
His works
The works of Arnaldo Pomodoro are present In the great squares of all over the world: From Milan to Copenhagen, that brisbane, in Australia, in Dublin. And again: al Mills College the Oakland in California, At the headquarters of the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles, In the courtyard of the Pigna of the Vatican Museums, in Zaragoza, in Spain, and in the major public collections of the world. Starting from the early sixties, Tomato develops the research who made him famous, that is, the one on three -dimensionality and for the forms of solid geometry.
Spheres, discs, pyramids, coni, column, cubes – in lucid bronze – I'm torn, corrosis, dig in their underwear, with the intent to break their perfection and discover the mystery that is enclosed there. The formal contrast between the smooth perfection of the geometric form and the chaotic complexity of the interior will be, ora, onwards a constant in tomato production.
The 'big ball', symbol of the city of Pesaro
The name of Arnaldo Pomodoro is also carved in the collective memory of the city of Pesaro thanks to “Big ball“, the sculpture that, from the 1998, dominates the Pesaro promenade and has become, over time, an icon urbana. The work is not limited to decorating, but question the space, the matter, time. Destination of walks, Photo, meetings, symbol of the visual identity of the city, That torn sphere is today also the most tangible sign of the link between tomato and Pesaro.
