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febbraio 15, 2016 - Tornabuoni Art

Tornabuoni Arte è lieta di presentare la prima mostra di Arnaldo Pomodoro a Londra

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Tornabuoni Art is delighted to announce the first exhibition of Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro to take place in London in over 50 years. From the artist’s early experiments with sign and language, his personal interpretation of Lucio Fontana’s Spatialism, to his most recent work, this exhibition retraces the ever-evolving artistic career of a master of modern bronze sculpture.
Born in Montefeltro in 1926, Arnaldo Pomodoro discovered early on in his career a desire to play with signs and symbols to create seemingly mysterious narratives, elaborating his own alphabet and artistic language. The exhibition begins with the Grande Tavola dei Segni from 1960, a low relief with which Pomodoro explores what he describes as “a secret language, full of poetic myths and personal symbolism”. Citing the influence of Paul Klee, Pomodoro thus embarked on a path of semiotic research that has followed him throughout his career until the realisation of the Continuum series from 2010, also on show at the gallery.
Another great influence on the work of Arnaldo Pomodoro was Lucio Fontana. The two artists met when Pomodoro moved to Milan in 1954 and Pomodoro became increasingly interested in the research led by the founder of Spatialism. Geometric shapes then became the focal point of Pomodoro’s practice – spheres, columns, pyramids – which reflect and deform light, and their surroundings, on their polished bronze surface, while retaining mythical references to magic and to ancient civilisations. With Pomodoro, as for Fontana, the perfect surface of an artwork had to be broken to reveal the possibilities beyond it. In Sfera, 2013 the surface of the sculpture is breeched by “a delirious succession of fragments searching for order” (Gulio Carlo Argan), revealing the core – or as Pomodoro calls it, the nucleus – of the solid. The sculpture becomes an object that seems worked from the inside out, rather than from its surface.
It is Pomodoro’s ability to continually renew himself that most fascinates Bruno Corà, President of the Fondazione Burri di Città di Castello and author of the introductory text to the hardback monograph especially published by Forma Edizioni, Florence, to accompany the exhibition. Through his varied series, as exhibited here, and public monuments on show around the world from Rome, Paris, Copenhagen to New York and Tehran, Arnaldo Pomodoro has succeeded in always remaining relevant and contemporary.
“After the success of the ground-breaking retrospective of Arnaldo Pomodoro in our Paris gallery in 2009, we couldn’t wait to bring these sculptures to London”, says gallery director Ursula Casamonti. “In this ambitious sculptural exhibition we wanted to show a different side of Spatialist research to the work that was presented within our inaugural Lucio Fontana retrospective.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
ABOUT TORNABUONI ART
Tornabuoni Art London was launched in October 2015 by Ursula Casamonti after having worked alongside her father and brother for over 20 years managing Tornabuoni Arte. The gallery was founded in Florence in 1981 on via de’ Tornabuoni which gave it its name, and has since opened new exhibition spaces in Crans Montana (1993), Milan (1995), Forte dei Marmi (2004) and Paris (2009).
Specialising in Post-War Italian art, exhibiting artists such as Fontana, Burri, Scheggi, Castellani, Bonalumi, Boetti and Dadamaino, the gallery also has a permanent collection of significant works by major Italian artists of the Novecento, such as de Chirico, Morandi, Balla or Severini, as well as International 20th century Avant-garde masters, such as Picasso, Mirò, Kandinsky, Hartung, Poliakoff, Dubuffet, Lam, Matta, Christo, Wesselmann, Warhol and Basquiat.
The gallery is also since many years present in all major international art fairs – Frieze Masters, Fiac, Art Basel, TEFAF – bringing its exhibition programme based on Italian Post-War art, while also promoting a few emerging Italian artists.
The annual exhibition programme revolves around ambitious solo exhibitions of post-war Italian masters, themed group exhibitions as well as one exhibition dedicated to emerging Italian artists. Following the success of the inaugural exhibition dedicated to a retrospective of the work of Lucio Fontana, Tornabuoni Art presents group show The Die Is Cast and dedicates its second solo exhibition to great Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
The gallery also works closely with museums and institutions for expertise and guidance and with its experience and thorough knowledge of the work of the artists it represents, it has established itself as an advisor for both private and public collections.

ARNALDO POMODORO
10 FEBRUARY – 16 APRIL 2016 
For more information on the gallery’s history and other activities, please visit
www.tornabuoniart.com
Tornabuoni Art
46 Albemarle Street W1S 4JN, London
Phone: +44 (0)207 62 92 172, info@tornabuoniart.com

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