Arnaldo Pomodoro Returns to Milan as Bronze Becomes Vision

Milan is once again shining a spotlight on one of Italy’s most recognizable artists: Arnaldo Pomodoro. One year after his death and on the centenary of his birth, Gallerie d’Italia is presenting the major exhibition Arnaldo Pomodoro: A Life, organized together with the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. The exhibition traces more than sixty years of artistic research through 45 works, documents, and archival materials spanning the artist’s entire career, from the 1950s to his most recent experiments. Famous for his monumental fractured spheres filled with gears and intricate enigmatic geometries, Pomodoro transformed sculpture into a kind of mysterious machine, capable of combining industrial rigor with visionary imagination. The exhibition goes beyond his most iconic masterpieces, bringing visitors inside the artist’s creative laboratory through studies, experiments, and exhibition designs conceived to reveal the almost theatrical power of his works. It is a journey through a universe of bronze, cracks, symbols, and impossible architectures that still feels strikingly contemporary today.