Background
Pomodoro, Arnaldo was born on June 23, 1926 in Morciano Di Romagna, Forli', Italy. Son of Antonio and Beatrice (Luzzi) Pomodoro.
Pomodoro, Arnaldo was born on June 23, 1926 in Morciano Di Romagna, Forli', Italy. Son of Antonio and Beatrice (Luzzi) Pomodoro.
Diploma, Bologna University, 1948. Doctor of Letters, University Dublin, 1992.
He currently lives and works in Milan. 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 and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, American Republic Insurance Company in Des Moines, Iowa, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, Berkeley and the Tel Aviv University, Israel. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he has created sculptory for the Amaliehaven park which was inaugurated on the waterfront in front of Amalienborg Palace in 1983.
His thematic work "Forme del Mito" (Forms of Myth) was displayed at Brisbane's World Expo '88 and was later purchased by Brisbane City Council for the City of Brisbane. Museum of Outdoor Arts also has a piece by Pomodoro in their collection entitled "Disco Emergente" which is on permanent public display in Greenwood Village, CO USA. In 1999 he founded Fondazione Arnaldo 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, Lucio Fontana and Robert Rauschenberg.
The director of Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro is Flaminio Gualdoni. 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 Genoa – 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 (The Tempest) 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.
Principal works include Galleria Quattro Venti, Palermo, Italy, Galleria Verde, Florence, Italy, Galleria dei Carbini, Varazze, Italy, Galleria Multicenter, Milan, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels, Galleria Corsini, Intra, Italy, Studio Marconi, Milan, Circolo Italsider, Taranto, Italy, Galerie des Saints Pères, Paris, Showroom Tecno, Brussels, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Public Library. Garden, Miami, Florida, Galleria di Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Gallerie Charles Kirwin, Brussels, University California Art Museum, Berkeley, Galleria L'Agrifoglio, Milan, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna del Castello di Portofino, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, The Belvedere Fort, Florence, Galleria del Falconiere, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Galleria Rizzardi, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, Fisher Gallery, University Southern California, Los Angeles. Other exhibitions include Tokyo, Osaka and San Francisco, 1985, Sfera at University Dublin's Trinity College, Disco at Mills College, Oakland, 1986, Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, 1987, 43d Venice Biennal and Brisbane World Expo.
, 1988, Sfera con Sfera at Vatican Museum's Cortile Della Pigna, 1990, Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, 1990, Disco Square at Palazzo Della Gioventú, Moscow, 1991, Spera Con Sera, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 1996. Also theatrical designs.