Grande Radar, 1963 (installed 1974)
Arnaldo Pomodoro
University of Chicago
Cochrane-Woods Art
Center
5540 South Greenwood
Avenue
During a series of interviews conducted by Mark
Rosenthal, Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 1926) described an experience
he had in 1960 that changed the course of his artistic practice. Standing
before sculptures by Brancusi at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he
realized that the “perfection of form” achieved by the Romanian artist was
“inappropriate” for the contemporary age and had “to be destroyed.” Since that
time, Pomodoro has continually investigated the metaphor of a “perfect,
coherent form being torn asunder.”
The smooth bronze concave surface is interrupted by deep
indentations, resulting in what has been described as the artist’s “intaglio”
style, emphasizing the negative effects of recession into a surface. Many of
his works engage with fundamental geometric shapes, such as spheres, discs,
columns and pyramids. One of his column-shaped works is exhibited on the campus
of Northwestern University in Evanston and examples of his “Sphere within a
Sphere” series are located outside of the United Nations building in New York
and in the courtyard of the Vatican in Rome.
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