Arnaldo Pomodoro
Movimento di crollo, 1970-1971
bronze, 520 × ø 70 cm
Arnaldo Pomodoro says: there has always been an internal movement in my work, with sculptures freed from the fixity of the base or rotating on a pivot, equipped in some cases with specific mechanisms, and with the same breaks in the surfaces and forms. Now, after the corroded and therefore broken columns and after those clearly cut or severed, in the case of the Movimento di crollo: on the cylinder-column a longitudinal split, with a blow of the central axe, leaves the two parts 'monumental still' for a hundredth of a second. I understand movement as an accentuation of the disequilibrium in progress, to give a complete contrast with any staticity or with any achieved or predictable order.
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On loan to the Horti of the Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia from 2024
