Arnaldo Pomodoro
La Colonna del viaggiatore, 1959, I, 1959
lead and wood, 194 × 30 cm
Gillo Dorfles writes – regarding a series of works of which this Colonna del viaggiatore is also part – that “they were human machines, non-functioning machines that had the same value as ancient sacred stones, of remote cosmogonic citadels. It was therefore logical that Pomodoro made use of those very particular signs (completely asemantic signs, of which he himself was unaware of the meaning) to dictate his particular message; and certainly these signs were not to be understood (as some critics wanted) as references to ancient cultures, to archaic alphabets".
from: G. Dorfles, in Libro per le sculture di Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Gabriele Mazzotta editore, 1974, p. 191; now in Scritti critici per Arnaldo Pomodoro e opere dell’artista 1955-2000, edited by L. Berra, B. Leonetti, Milano, Lupetti Editori di Comunicazione, 2000, p. 90.
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