Trained as a goldsmith, Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro translated his sensibility for structural relief into symbolically-infused geometric and calligraphic works. Peggy Guggenheim acquired two sculptures by him from 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 are however 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.