Gio' Pomodoro - Capolavori - Masterpieces - Chefs- d'oeuvre a cura di Marco Meneguzzo Thu 15 May 2014 - Thu 10 July 2014
The title of the exhibition is eloquent: the works of Gio 'Pomodoro exposed in the space of Project-art Elm are the result of active collaboration with Bruto Pomodoro, son of Gio', which contributed to the selection and retrieval of some of the the most significant works of his father, and clearly indicate the intention of the gallery to work continuously on the work of the sculptor, who died in 2002.
For this exhibition, which could also be considered a selected anthology, not usurping the title of "Masterpieces, chef d'oeuvres, masterpieces", because this is all about: the "masterpieces" of various periods of activity Gio 'Pomodoro, from a formidable relief in 1958, to arrive at a voltage of white marble in 2001, through a vertical tension in bronze and a surface tension of fiberglass - a surprisingly contemporary, even according to the canons of taste renewed for that decade - up to a masterful “ Grande folla “ of 1962, in polished bronze, right up to the Suns (1988 and 1997), the Janus (1980) and Marat (1973). Is evidence not only of one of the most important sculptors of the Italian post-war period, but also a moral integrity and ideational spanning more than four decades of art, cleverly mixing knowledge of materials and proper linguistic rhetoric, as craftsmanship and wide and eclectic symbolic culture, and allowing them to build and return one of the languages most autonomous of Modernity.
A catalog with an essay by Marco Meneguzzo, former curator of the last major retrospective public Gio 'Pomodoro in 2011, accompanying the exhibition, providing a critical artist in the light of the new international interest for the years "heroic" art Italian.