Arnaldo Pomodoro
Porte dell’Edipo, 1988
bronze, 63 × 74 × 40 cm
In 2008 Bruno Corà, speaking of the "portals" sculpted by Pomodoro, speaks of "a door-threshold-wall in which the artist has projected, integrating and metabolising them in an outcome of almost unprecedented intensity, many plastic solutions in which the entire geometric repertoire and its derivatives implement a highly revealed spatiality that is chaotic but at the same time solemn and recorded. Cubic projections, triangular cavities, polygons, spheres and hemispheres, round holes, wedges, arrows, curved surfaces, cracks become organic with each other, surfacing or sinking into a bronze material with a corrugated appearance, a Phlegraean territory full of emblems that the drift of mind and the unconscious agitated by impulses has pushed, as on a beach, up to the present of our thoughts. It is not necessary to have read Jacques Lacan's seminar also dedicated to Oedipus in 1957-1958 or to have meditated on Gilles Deleuze's lucid insights to understand behind Pomodoro's morphemes his anxieties in the interpretation of the tragic mythical figure".
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