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1 that he applied to the surface now act from the surface
Omagg,o a Michelangelo 1962
Bronze and the space-time manifold in which we find ourselves
Collection: M. Maurice d'Arquian is the negative of the one in which the artist acted and is
2 generated by the surface. This reversal of the direction
Contaw 5. 1962 of action, he emphasises by the high polish he gives to
Bronze
170 x 40 x 40 cm. the bronze. The highly reflective surface is not an
Collection. M. Maurice d'Arquian
illusionistic trick but a further means to enable us to
3 feel, to see even, the tensions within and out from the
Progetlo per la Fol/a 1963
Bronze work. Moreover, though simplicity is rarely an aesthetic
30 x 70 cm. virtue. a certain economy of means nearly always is, a
Collection. Bo Boustedt
minimum of redundancy with a maximum of informa­
4 tion, so that this polish serves other ends as well. Since
A selection of works 1962
Bronze Gio' Pomodoro aims to make sculptures which are not
Marlborough Gallery, Rome
objects, he cannot allow them to be mere static volume
nor just articulated space, and so the polish helps to
invest them with light and air, contradicting the
pedestrian massiveness of their material to such an
extent that occasionally one tries to move them and
only then is reminded of the specific gravity of bronze.
One has had recourse frequently to a mathematical
terminology to describe the forms of G io' Pomodoro's

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