(born in Morciano di Romagna/Rimini in 1926)
Disco in forma di rosa del deserto, studio I, 1993–1994, bronze, golden patina, incised on the base with the artist’s signature, date and number: Arnaldo Pomodoro 93/94 2/6 (from an edition of 6 plus one artist’s proof), diameter 60 x 18 cm, base 50 x 50 x 5 cm

This work is registered in the Archivio Arnaldo Pomodoro,
Milan, no. AP 679.

Provenance:
Artist’s studio
Private Collection, New York
thence by descent to the current owner

Exhibition:
Brescia, Manuela Allegrini arte contemporanea, Arnaldo Pomodoro,
8 April - 27 May 1995, illustrated pp. 28, 29 (another from the edition exhibited, ill.)
Milan, Galleria Giò Marconi, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited)
Zurich, Galerie Semiha Huber, Arnaldo Pomodoro,
1 November - 1 December 1996 (another from the edition exhibited, ill.)
Pisa, Museo delle Sinopie, Palazzo OPA, 2015–2016 (plaster exhibited and ill.)

Literature:
A. Clerici, “Il gioiello è una scultura”, in Italia Orafa, Milan, June 1995
ill. page 90 (another from the edition)
A. Colombo,”Il cielo in una sfera”, in Luoghi dell’infinito, Avvenire,
no. 20, vol. III, Milan, June 1999 , ill. page 30
F. Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Catalogo ragionato della scultura, vol. II, Milan 2007, no. 913, page 714 (another from the edition ill.)

The power of Pomodoro’s work thus lies in two things. The first is the controlled violence of the little signs, arranged in strict but not regular formation, in mobile and yet complicated patterns, clear and penetrating; the second is the magnitude of a geometric form that was once a framework and has now been distorted by something emerging from another corner of his mind.

In their conception of material, and of how it is devoured and consumed by the forces of destruction (both from within and without), Pomodoro and other sculptors of these bronze eruptions share commonalities with the painter Burri, who often delves into the demonic abyss only to be redeemed by an innate aesthetic.”
A.M. Hammacher, Sulla “scrittura”, 1969