Giò Pomodoro

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Giò Pomodoro. Photo by Paolo Monti , 1958 (Fondo Paolo Monti)

Giò Pomodoro [dʒɔ pomoˈdɔːro] (born November 17, 1930 in Orciano di Pesaro , Italy ; † December 21, 2002 in Milan , Italy) was an Italian sculptor , relief artist and architect . He is one of the most important representatives of abstract art after the Second World War .

Bronze sculpture. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1965.

Life

Giò Pomodoro was the younger brother of the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro . Giò Pomodoro originally studied architecture and also sculpture and painting . In 1954, Giò and Arnaldo Pomodoro founded the group " 3 P " together with Giorgio Perfetti . After 1955, both brothers belong to the artist group “ Continuità ” together with Piero Dorazio , Gastone Novelli , Giulio Turcato , Tancredi Parmeggiani , Achille Perilli and Lucio Fontana .

His works, which are mostly made of bronze or marble blocks , some monumental, are arranged between abstract sculpture and architecture-like visions or smaller objects with a relief-like surface.

His art received international attention and recognition in the 1950s. He was a participant in documenta 2 in 1959 and in documenta 3 in 1964 in Kassel . His works can be seen worldwide in numerous collections and museums, plus the include Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC , the collection Nelson Rockefeller in New York, the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Mexico City , the modern art collection of the city Jeddah , in Saudi Arabia , the Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels , the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal , the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield (England), the Veranneman Foundation in Belgium , the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome and Turin and the Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan .

  • Works in Gio Pomodoro's studio in Milan in 1964-1965 photographed by Paolo Monti

  • Sculpture. Photo from 1964.

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literature

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel: documenta III. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Pomodoro, Giò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor, relief artist and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Orciano di Pesaro , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2002
Place of death Milan , Italy