Arnaldo Pomodoro
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Arnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. He was born on June 23, 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., and the University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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[edit] Scenographies 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
[edit] Gallery
 Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in the Cortile della Pigna, Vatican, Rome |
[edit] References
- Radford, Georgia and Warren Radford, "Sculpture in the Sun, Hawaii's Art for Open Spaces", University of Hawaii Press, 1978, 95.
[edit] External links
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