Arnaldo Pomodoro
Rotante massimo, IV, 1969-1970
bronze, ø 160 cm
Mark Rosenthal writes about the Rotanti series: “Best known among Pomodoro’s expressions of the metaphor is his series of bronze globes or ‘convulsed spheres’. He wrote that ‘spheres are first of all perfect and magical forms and I break them apart in order to search out and finally discover the internal fermentations they contain, mysterious and alive, monstrous and pure’. Starting in 1966, the spheres assumed a new aspect: in place of the earlier gestural erosions, or in combination with them, regular, geometric openings appeared within the globes. These spheres, now called Rotanti, are bored through and perforated as if by a machine. Instead of a sense of time and nature affecting the sphere, we now have the suggestion of a technological attack on the exterior".
from: Luoghi Fondamentali. Sculture di Arnaldo Pomodoro, exhibition catalogue, edited by I. Mussa, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1984.
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