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Spheres in spheres, sphere in sphere. The work of the most famous Italian sculptor Armaldo Pomodoro is located in the garden of the Vatican, barely a hundred meters from the other rather symbolic work, which depicts a huge pine cone, i.e. our pineal gland.
The work seems mysterious and it is questionable what the artist wanted to express with it, which went so well that it was given a place of honor not only here, but similar works can be found in many different parts of the world, such as Trinity College, Dublin, UN headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, Hirshhorn_Museum_and ... in Washington, Indianapolis, the De Young Museum, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Republic Insurance Company in Des Moines, Iowa, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the University of California, Berkeley, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and Tel Aviv University, Israel without claiming completeness.
According to the artist’s own definition, a sphere is a magical object that has been used by wizards for thousands of years, either like here where it has a bronze exterior, either full of crystal or water. The glittering surface reflects the outside world, where constant opposites shape our world, but transformations take place inside as well, allowing a glimpse into it. This is where the events take place, which are the opposites of external sparkle, rot but what we have to go into, between the squeaking gears so that the change, the transformation that promises the possibility of a beautiful new world can take place. The tension of the two gives completeness and the opportunity for change over time.
What I think is about starting to deal with yourself, get to know yourself by going in and overcoming your own fears armed with your experience, creating a new world for yourself where things are balanced and you realize that everything is fine and right where you are should and what happens should happen and that’s fine.
( “The sphere is a marvelous object, from the world of magic, wizards, whether it is of crystal or bronze, or full of water…It reflects everything around it, creating such contrasts that it sometimes is transformed, becoming invisible, leaving only its interior, tormented and corroded, full of teeth,” explained the artist. “That’s what drives me to make the spheres: breaking these perfect, magic forms in order reveal (find, discover) its internal ferment, mysterious and alive, monstrous and yet pure; so I create a discordant tension, a conflict, with the polished shine: a unity composed of incompleteness.” “In my sculpture, the shape of today’s world contains within itself the form of the ‘ideal city’ as conceived by the artists of the Italian Renaissance. This, in turn, cont
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