Arnaldo Pomodoro

Following the success of recent exhibitions dedicated to Fernando Botero and Igor Mitoraj, the catalogue of the new exhibition at the Modern Art Museum in Lugano presents about thirty monumental sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro, taking the reader through the main stages of this master's artistic career, from the 1960s to his most recent works.
Arnaldo Pomodoro is one of those rare artists who throughout the last forty years has been able to give his plastic works an unmistakably individual style and at the same time renew the expressive language of sculpture with great originality, consistency and effectiveness; he has been able to do this because of his extraordinary passion and inexhaustible love for his art.
His works, which today can be admired in important public spaces and leading museums throughout the world, are distinguished by an extraordinary technical richness that transforms classic and primordial forms the disc, the column, the sphere into objects having great mystery and appeal. A multiform and articulated structure is contained within these objects: they are works that open out from deep gashes that reveal a diverse interior world, one that is much more complex than what appears on the surface.

Dazzling and disconcerting primary forms () fractured by disturbing chasms, as described by the writer Alberto Arbasino; sculptures whose luxurious, precious, grand, blindingly awesome calm, circular surfaces appear immediately contradicted and ripped apart by deep rents: something has happened, from eternity, in the order of creation; or, the very order of everything that exists continues to mask the terrible disorder of a chaos from which it emerged and to which it will return at any moment, only to reassemble in the wonder of logical and geometric forms (Mario Soldati).