Postwar Era. A Recent History

Basaldella

Basaldella

Mirko

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Claire Falkenstein

Postwar Era. A Recent History

Homage to Jack Tworkov and Claire Falkenstein

fino al 4 aprile 2016

Venezia, Peggy Guggenheim Collection

È ricca di soprese l’intelligente mostra che la Collezione Peggy Guggenheim ha dedicato alla produzione del secondo dopoguerra raccontando il dialogo tra figurazione e astrazione, dal 1942 al 1979. Ampio lo spazio dedicato alla scultura con Consagra (amico di Peggy Guggenheim), Pomodoro, una straordinaria stanza con i leoni di Mirko Basaldella, all’omaggio alla scultrice americana Claire Falkenstein che sperimentò l’abbinamento tra la fusione del metallo e il vetro di Murano.

Per maggiori informazioni, http://www.guggenheim-venice.it

The intelligent and surprising exhibition proposed by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the post-war art displays the dialogue between figurative and abstraction from 1942 to 1979. The sculpture has a wide space with Consagra (Peggy Guggenheim’s friend), Pomodoro, an extraordinary room with the lions by Mirko Basaldella and the final homage to the American sculptor  Claire Falkenstein who experimented the combination between the fusion of the metals and the Murano glass.

For further information, http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/exhibitions/postwar2016/postwar-era.html

Sfera – Arnaldo Pomodoro

1982-83
Dublino, Trinity College

Donata dall’artista al Trinity College, Sfera è una forse la scultura più celebre di Pomodoro che ne colloca una similare anche nella piazza delle Nazioni Unite a New York, a Berkeley in California, al Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Tehran e nel cortile del Belvedere a Roma. La sua forma, nonché la riflettenza, hanno ispirato a John Scattergood il poema, Six ways of looking at a Pomodoro (Sei modi per guardare un pomodro), riportato di seguito. Ringrazio Alessandro Forlin per le immagini.

The Sphere is may be the most known sculpture by Pomodoro who has donated a similar one to the United Nations plaza in New York, to the University of California at Berkeley, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, and one sphere is also in the Cortile del Belvedere at The Vatican Museums. The shape and its surface have inspired the John Scattergood’s poem, Six ways of looking at a Pomodoro (Thanks to Alessandro Forlin for the images).

SIX WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POMODORO John Scattergood
He breaks the universal sphere's
Machine-smoothed skin,
To show the meshing gears
And cogs within.

Like a polished astrolabe's
Locked planes and bars,
Subjecting human fates
To sun and stars.

Like some bright orrery's
Elliptic rounds,
Confining planetary ways
In metal bands.

Like Paley's sublime watch
With opened back,
The tightened springs that stretch,
Pinion and rack.

Or like the cosmic egg's
Half-splintered shell,
Revealing sharpened beaks
And teeth that kill.

Or like his namesake fruit,
With row on row
Of seeds awaiting use,
Which splits to grow.