The Archive developed in parallel with Pomodoro’s artistic practice, as the artist—drawing on his previous experience as a surveyor—understood from the very beginning of his career the importance of collecting and preserving documentation of his work. The wide variety of materials that make up the Archive bears witness not only to his artistic research, but also to his extensive network of professional relationships, which—spanning the second half of the twentieth century and the first two decades of our century—also provide a cross-section of the national and international intellectual scene of that historical period.
Organized into six sections (Library, Photographs, Audiovisual Materials, Correspondence, Working Papers, and Miscellaneous Materials), the Archive is in a continuous phase of study, cataloguing, and digitization—ongoing activities through which the Foundation, by the artist’s own will, is committed to enhancing and making this heritage freely accessible to the widest possible audience. For this reason, following the publication of the Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture (2007), the Foundation launched the Catalogue Raisonné (2018) and the Online Archive (2019) projects, while also encouraging and supporting research and on-site consultation by professionals, students, and scholars, establishing partnerships and collaborations with other public and private institutions, and granting loans of archival materials for temporary exhibitions of scientific relevance.
