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Gio' Pomodoro

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sculpture. That these descriptions could not be adequate
without recourse, as well, to tension and to action, and
to coherence as the measure of the transcendance of
alienation, should be sufficient enough to set them
apart from those exercises in pure form that enshrine
geometry as the reborn deity. For Gio' Pomodoro there
has been no retreat into a perspex tower. For him
aesthetic action is the means, one of the few available
to man, to overcome the conceptual confusions and
metaphysical contradictions which beset us, to choose
his own ends. These sculptures celebrate the moment
when the ideal and the actual may coincide, the dis­
covery, the revelation of authentic existence, freedom.
He reminds the communists that Marx said 'Man also
creates according to the laws of beauty'. ■

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