Pomodoro, Arnaldo – Piramide della Mente (Pyramid of the Mind)

Arnaldo Pomodoro, born in Morciano di Romagna, is considered one of Italy’s leading sculptors. He was trained as an architect and as a young artist began designing metal jewelry. These two extremes of sculpture have been factors in his work throughout his career: the jeweler’s attention to craft and detail acting as a foil to the increasingly architectural character of the sculpture. Pomodoro became known for large, free-standing geometric forms, especially columns, cubes, pyramids, spheres, and discs. He is perhaps best known for his Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera), versions of which can be seen in the Vatican Museums, the United Nations Headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Tel Aviv University, Israel.