Arnaldo Pomodoro. Catalogo Ragionato della Scultura

The career of Arnaldo Pomodoro, a prominent sculptor in the international art scene, now spans more than fifty years. Making his debut at a time when art was moving beyond the non-representational, Pomodoro went on to develop an idea of sculpture in which the three-dimensional geometric paradigm lies at the base of numerous different approaches to the work. On one hand, the breakdown of geometric perfection, through a sort of erosion due to complicated patterns of signs of great symbolic depth, which has also led to the artist to interrogate, in a specific way, the value of sculpture as architectural topos, from column to stele. On the other, the capacity of those same orchestrations of signs to salvage, from the spontaneous identity of sculpture, the value of frontality, of articulated surface, of the natural locus of a symbology that unfolds through continual iterations and variations. Many of the artist's works are famous, from the Sfera grande for the Montreal Expo (now at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome) to the versions of Sfera con sfera for the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican and for the seat of the United Nations in New York and from the monumental Papyrus for Darmstadt to Novecento, recently set up at the EUR in Rome.
The Catalogo generale of Arnaldo Pomodoro, the fruit of many years' work on the systematic cataloguing of the whole of his sculptural output, covers the full range of works produced by the artist between 1953 and 2003. This is accompanied by the first complete documentary research into the entire existing bibliography.