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Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere, 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., Tel Aviv University in Israel and at the Vatican Museums.

Life and career
Early life Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano, Romagna, in the Montefeltro area, on 23 June 1926. He experimented with objects in jewelry-style, with overlays in silver and gold. 1990s–2025 In 1990, Pomodoro received the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture from the Japan Art Association. The following year he was nominated the honorary member of the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1996, a Sfera con Sfera was installed at the United Nations Headquarters, gifted by Italy as a reference to a new millennium. In 2014–15, Pomodoro finished one of his fundamental works – the Pietrarubbia Group, which was started in 1975. Pomodoro was still active as of 2024 and exhibited recent work that year at his gallery, the Cortesi Gallery in Milan. Some of his Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) are on display at the public spaces including the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, 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 west entrance to the University of California, Berkeley campus, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, the Stanford University sculpture garden, the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens in Purchase, New York, and the Tel Aviv University, Israel. ==Personal life and death==
Personal life and death
Pomodoro lived and worked in Milan, Pomodoro died aged 98, at his home in Milan, on 22 June 2025, the day before his 99th birthday. == Quotes ==
Quotes
On Form and Movement: == Set designs for theatre and opera ==
Set designs for theatre and opera
Designs by Pomodoro for operas and plays included: • Semiramide by Rossini (1982), Teatro dell'Opera di RomaOrestea di Gibellina by Emilio Isgrò on a text by Eschilo (1983–1985), Teatro Massimo, Palermo • Didone by Christopher Marlowe (1986) • Alceste by Gluck (1987), Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa – stage and costumes • Oedipus rex by Stravinsky (1988), SienaLa Passione di Cleopatra by Ahmad Shawqi, an Egyptian poet (1989) • I Paraventi by Genet (1990), Teatro Comunale di 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 (1994–1995) • Moonlight by Pinter (1995) • Plays of the Sea by Eugene O'Neill (1996) • Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1996) • Tempesta (The Tempest) by Shakespeare (1998) – stage and costumes • Madama Butterfly by Puccini (2004), Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago • Un ballo in maschera by Verdi (2005), Leipzig Opera – stage and costumes • Teneke by Fabio Vacchi (2007), La Scala in Milan – stage and costumes == Honours and awards ==
Honours and awards
• International Prize for Sculpture, VII São Paulo Biennale, 1963 == Gallery ==
Gallery
File:Paolo Monti - Servizio fotografico - BEIC 6343260.jpg|by Pomodoro, 1965 File:Trinity Pomodoro.jpg|Sphere Within Sphere in Trinity College, Dublin File:Milano - Italy - Creative Commons by gnuckx (4276816477).jpg|Great disc, Milano File:Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sfera grande, Pesaro - 2025-09-03 16-38-06 001.jpg|Sfera grande, Pesaro Italy File:Sfera con sfera – Arnalda Pomodoro – Vatican (JD).jpg|Vatican Museums, Vatican == References ==
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