At almost 96 years old, with a lively and friendly eye, Arnaldo Pomodoro is inaugurating in his studio, a stone's throw from the "navigli" of Milan, an exhibition around one of his first works, produced in 1958:
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"This is the first time that we have opened our studio to the public, exhibiting new or unknown works, documents and original archives
," explains Laura Berra, curator of the collection at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation.
This is the core of the Open Studio project.”
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The work represents a kind of astronomical landscape of lead and zinc, where from the curved horizon rises a planet of steel, the big bang, which also marks the beginning of the career of one of the great contemporary Italian sculptors.
And where his obsession for time, space and matter already appears, and all the influence he will have on the imagination of space.
“Arnaldo Pomodoro belongs to the generation of artists who, in the 1950s, turned Western sculpture and its methods upside down
, believes…
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