
Lucio Fontana
Concetto spaziale
1951
Arnaldo Pomodoro
1999
Trained as a goldsmith, the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro translated his structural relief sensibility into his symbolically-infused geometric and calligraphic works. In her lifetime Peggy Guggenheim acquired two sculptures by him of the 1960s (still in her collection today). Double Relief, from 1999, epitomizes the persistence of Pomodoro’s aesthetics more than thirty years later. At once rational and lyrical, the work evokes a cuneiform tablet, the semi-geometric patterns of which however are indecipherable. Like a visual narrative, Double Relief reveals that the poetics of signs, like a language, can only be manifest when placed within a framing structure.
Artist | Arnaldo Pomodoro |
Original Title | Rilievo doppio |
Date | 1999 |
Medium | Bronze |
Dimensions | 58.5 x 19.5 x 11 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Gift in honor of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection by the artist and Art of This Century |
Accession | 2000.63 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Sculpture |
Copy caption
Lucio Fontana
1951
Arnaldo Pomodoro
1961
Arnaldo Pomodoro
1964
On view
Agnes Martin
ca. 1960
On view