Arnaldo Pomodoro: Sculpture, 1960/1970
Small folio of 18 photographs and text mounted on thick cardboard, labeled A-X (some single-sided); chiefly b&w illustrations in string-tied white printed & folding portfolio; 31 cms x 23 cms. All eighteen cardboard 'leaves' present. The catalogue text appears on verso of illustrations A-F; the bibliography on versos of illus. H and I. // Metal sculpture. Pomodoro, Arnaldo, 1926- Sculptor. Exhibition Catalog. Exhibition Catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. Title from portfolio. Exhibit held at the University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, and others. Folding portfolio case about good to acceptable. Please refer to photos. Mounted photos (loose "leaves") are all in fine condition. Folding case in good to very good condition.
Published by University Art Museum,Berkeley, 1970, 5000 copies of this folio catalogue were published on the occassion of the exhibition,Arnaldo Pomodoro, in 1970.
Folio portfilio with ties, enclosing 18 cards of hearvy cardboard, each with four notches to allow them to be interlocked, each with text and photographs of the artists work, the cards thus forming the catalogue of the exhibtion.
Arnaldo Pomodoro (1926- 2025) was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera), bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. They are displayed in public spaces such as the United Nations Headquarters, the University of California, Berkeley, Trinity College Dublin, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and at the Vatican Museums.
In the 1960s, Pomodoro began to create larger pieces in geometric shapes such as cubes and triangles. Some reviewers saw them as buildings stripped of facades by bombings. He developed a collaboration with the Marlborough Gallery in New York. In 1963, Pomodoro received the International Prize for Sculpture at the VII São Paulo Biennale and also the National Prize for Sculpture at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1964.:205 Pomodoro arrived at spheres covered partly with a polished bronze; the Museum of Modern Art bought his Sphere, I in 1964. In 1966, he became an artist in residence at Stanford University, and then at UC Berkeley and Mills College. He created the Sfera grande for the Italian Pavilion at the 1967 Montreal Expo, beginning his project of monumental spheres. This sculpture is now located in front of the Farnesina Palace in Rome. He was awarded the International Prize for Sculpture from the Carnegie Institute.
