Arnaldo Pomodoro
Grande disegno, 1971
watercolor and colored pencils, 350 × 280 cm
I have reached – declares Arnaldo Pomodoro – a maximum awareness in my mental operations on spheroids and cylinders, for which I believe that, in the course that goes from corrosion to splitting and to the hole, in my "research" I will now be able to overcome the element of meaning over that of the lively proportion of the sculptural masses. […] If I now make clearly severed or cut columns (after the corroded and therefore split ones, with their intellectual and emotional tension which up until now supported them), I do something that is now easy for me. Furthermore: the path of research that I consider the greatest is still that of my Onde or Negazioni di superficie riflettente. […] For this reason I make a highlighted cross-section that stands “monumentally still” for a hundredth of a second. And that is: I try to express the movement in progress not with regard to a minimal fragmented element, but with regard to the abstract whole. (And next to it, I place the already existing destructions, which appear here with a section and a segment in which the fragmentary is packaged with regularity). As if to say: today I feel an enormous and majestic movement of collapse (which is such, enormous and majestic, in the movement itself, in the movement that is impressed, not in the stuff that collapses).
from: Arnaldo Pomodoro. “Un centesimo di secondo”, exhibition catalogue, Milano, Studio Marconi, 1971.
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