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.

Since 1954 he has lived in Milan and has his studio alongside the docks in Porta Ticinese.