Giò Pomodoro

Giò Pomodoro ( born November 17, 1930 in Orciano di Pesaro, Italy, † December 21, 2002 in Milan, Italy ) was an Italian sculptor, artist and architect relief. He is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Art after the Second World War.

Life

Giò Pomodoro was the younger brother of the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro. Giò Pomodoro originally studied architecture and sculpture and painting. 1954 found Giò and Arnaldo Pomodoro, along with Giorgio Perfetti the group " 3 P". After 1955, both brothers, along with Piero Dorazio, Gastone Novelli, Giulio Turcato, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Achille Perilli and Lucio Fontana belong to the group of artists " Continuità ".

His works, which are usually made ​​of bronze or marble blocks, some monumental, are arranged between abstract sculpture and architecture -like visions or smaller objects with relief-like surface.

His art was in the 1950s, international attention and recognition. He took part in documenta 2 in 1959 and the documenta 3 in Kassel in 1964. His works can be seen in numerous collections and museums worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the collection Nelson Rockefeller in New York, the Museo d' Arte Moderna in Mexico City, the modern art collection of the city Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Musée d' Ixelles in Brussels, the Von der Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield (England), the Veranneman Foundation in Belgium, the Galleria d' Arte Moderna in Rome and Turin and the Civico Museo d' Arte Contemporanea in Milan.

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