Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro (23 June 1926 – 22 June 2025) was an Italian sculptor based in Milan. His signature works are Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera), bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors. 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 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 On Form and Movement: Semiramide by Rossini (1982), Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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