Biography of Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano di Romagna in 1926 and spent his childhood and youth in the Montefeltro area.
His works are to be found in large squares (Milan, Copenhagen, Brisbane), in front of the University of Dublin's Trinity College, at Mills College, California, at the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles, in the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican Museums and in the world's largest public collections. In 1991 his Disco Solare, a gift from the Italian Prime Minister's Office to the Soviet Union, was installed in front of the Youth Building in Moscow; and in 1992 a large work entitled Papyrus was installed in the gardens of the new Posts and Telecommunications Building in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1995 the Municipality of Rimini commissioned him to make a sculpture in memory of Federico Fellini; in 1996 the work Sfera con sfera of diameter 3.30 metres was placed in the United Nations square in New York; and in 1998 he received a commission to create the portal of Cefalù cathedral.
His most important exhibitions were held at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan in 1974, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1976, at the Forte Belvedere in Florence in 1984, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 1987, at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1994, at the Rocca Malatestiana in Cesena and at the Museo della Città di Rimini in 1995, at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 1996 and in San Leo in 1997. He has held travelling exhibitions at American museums (at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California in 1970-71 and at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio in 1983-85) and also in Europe, Australia and Japan.
He has taught in the art departments of various American universities, including Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and Mills College. Since 1990 he has directed the Centro TAM youth training centre, set up in cooperation with the Municipality of Pietrarubbia nel Montefeltro.
He has won the following awards: San Paolo in 1963, Venice in 1964, one of the six Carnegie Institute international prizes in 1967, and the Henry Moore Grand Prize in Japan in 1981. In 1990 he received the Praemium Imperiale 1990 for sculpture from the Japan Art Association (Leonard Bernstein won the prize for music, Federico Fellini for the cinema and theatre, James Stirling for architecture, and Antoni Tapies for painting).
In 1992 Trinity College, Dublin awarded him an Honorary Degree in Letters and the same year he received the UBU Prize for the stage design for Koltes' work In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. In 1993 he received the title of Honorary Member of the Accademia di Brera, Milan. In 1994 he received an Award from the Prime Minister's Office as part of the Big Millennium study days organised by the Pio Manzù Centre. In 1996 he was nominated Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
He has also worked on stage designs, particularly for major theatrical events. These include Rossini's Semiramide at the Rome Opera in 1982; the Gibellina ruins for the Isgrò's adaptation of the Orestea by Aeschylus in 1983-85; Marlowe's Dido in 1986; Alceste by Gluck at the Genoa Opera in 1987; Stravinsky's Oedipus rex in Siena in 1988; the Passion of Cleopatra by the Egyptian poet Shawqi in the summer of 1989; Genet's The Screens in 1990; In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Koltes in 1992; Più grandiose dimore by O'Neill and Oreste by Vittorio Alfieri in 1993; Stabat Mater, La passione secondo Giovanni and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Antonio Tarantino and Moonlight by Pinter in 1994-95.
In 1996 he created the stage designs for Eugene O'Neill's Plays of the Sea and for Jean Anouilh's Antigone. In 1998 he produced the stage designs and the costumes for Shakespeare's Tempest.
Since 1954 he has lived in Milan and has his studio alongside the docks in Porta Ticinese.

Biography of Arnaldo Pomodoro

Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Morciano di Romagna in 1926 and spent his childhood and youth in the Montefeltro area.
His works are to be found in large squares (Milan, Copenhagen, Brisbane), in front of the University of Dublin's Trinity College, at Mills College, California, at the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles, in the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican Museums and in the world's largest public collections. In 1991 his Disco Solare, a gift from the Italian Prime Minister's Office to the Soviet Union, was installed in front of the Youth Building in Moscow; and in 1992 a large work entitled Papyrus was installed in the gardens of the new Posts and Telecommunications Building in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1995 the Municipality of Rimini commissioned him to make a sculpture in memory of Federico Fellini; in 1996 the work Sfera con sfera of diameter 3.30 metres was placed in the United Nations square in New York; and in 1998 he received a commission to create the portal of Cefalù cathedral.
His most important exhibitions were held at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan in 1974, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1976, at the Forte Belvedere in Florence in 1984, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 1987, at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1994, at the Rocca Malatestiana in Cesena and at the Museo della Città di Rimini in 1995, at the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 1996 and in San Leo in 1997. He has held travelling exhibitions at American museums (at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California in 1970-71 and at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio in 1983-85) and also in Europe, Australia and Japan.
He has taught in the art departments of various American universities, including Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and Mills College. Since 1990 he has directed the Centro TAM youth training centre, set up in cooperation with the Municipality of Pietrarubbia nel Montefeltro.
He has won the following awards: San Paolo in 1963, Venice in 1964, one of the six Carnegie Institute international prizes in 1967, and the Henry Moore Grand Prize in Japan in 1981. In 1990 he received the Praemium Imperiale 1990 for sculpture from the Japan Art Association (Leonard Bernstein won the prize for music, Federico Fellini for the cinema and theatre, James Stirling for architecture, and Antoni Tapies for painting).
In 1992 Trinity College, Dublin awarded him an Honorary Degree in Letters and the same year he received the UBU Prize for the stage design for Koltes' work In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. In 1993 he received the title of Honorary Member of the Accademia di Brera, Milan. In 1994 he received an Award from the Prime Minister's Office as part of the Big Millennium study days organised by the Pio Manzù Centre. In 1996 he was nominated Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
He has also worked on stage designs, particularly for major theatrical events. These include Rossini's Semiramide at the Rome Opera in 1982; the Gibellina ruins for the Isgrò's adaptation of the Orestea by Aeschylus in 1983-85; Marlowe's Dido in 1986; Alceste by Gluck at the Genoa Opera in 1987; Stravinsky's Oedipus rex in Siena in 1988; the Passion of Cleopatra by the Egyptian poet Shawqi in the summer of 1989; Genet's The Screens in 1990; In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Koltes in 1992; Più grandiose dimore by O'Neill and Oreste by Vittorio Alfieri in 1993; Stabat Mater, La passione secondo Giovanni and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Antonio Tarantino and Moonlight by Pinter in 1994-95.
In 1996 he created the stage designs for Eugene O'Neill's Plays of the Sea and for Jean Anouilh's Antigone. In 1998 he produced the stage designs and the costumes for Shakespeare's Tempest.
Since 1954 he has lived in Milan and has his studio alongside the docks in Porta Ticinese.