Arnaldo Pomodoro
La luna il sole la torre, 1955
silver and patinated brass mesh, 37 × 47.5 cm
La luna il sole la torre is an emblematic work of Arnaldo Pomodoro's roots: it is a meeting between the ancient and original time of the stars and a city of today, which rises with its buildings and it radiates into the landscape. The use of cuttlefish bone, an ancient technique learned from a goldsmith from his homeland, the Marche, allows precise and detailed workmanship, which takes on a poetic and linguistic value, developed and deepened over the years, but already at this moment not reducible to a mere operational mode. The artist says: “In my youth I first began to invent artistically when I entered a goldsmith's hole; I discovered the cuttlefish bone. […] The example of the cuttlefish bone is a key to my entire artistic technique […]. In fact, if we extend this example to the maximum scale of sculpture, we have the main procedure: it consists in the direct treatment of a negative material [...]".
from: L. M. Barbero, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Una tensione discordante, in Arnaldo Pomodoro. 1955-65, exhibition catalogue, edited by L. M. Barbero, Firenze, Forma edizioni, 2019, p. 8.
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