ARNALDO POMODORO. A LIFE

From 29 May to 18 October 2026, Gallerie d'Italia - Milan presents the exhibition “ARNALDO POMODORO. A LIFE. Major works from the Intesa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro Collections”, in collaboration with Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, dedicated to one of the most important figures in Italian and international contemporary art of the second half of the 20^th century.

Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, associate curator of Intesa Sanpaolo's Collections of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Federico Giani, curator of Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, the exhibition is the story of a life, of an artistic journey that lasted over sixty years, from the ferment of his early career in the mid-1950s to his most recent experiments in the 2000s.  Thanks to an anthology of about forty-five works from the Intesa Sanpaolo and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro Collections, visitors will be able to retrace the most significant stages of Pomodoro’s creative and poetic journey, decade by decade.

The exhibition itinerary will offer visitors the chance to admire the cornerstones of the Artist's oeuvre and to discover lesser-known works and a nucleus of archive materials selected by the curators to inspire new ways of interpreting and viewing his work.  The exhibition layout will also convey the visionary power of Pomodoro’s creative process, offering a reinterpretation of the most effective displays conceived by the artist throughout his career.  The works on display include two monumental works by Pomodoro that are permanently exhibited in the Octagonal Cloister and the Giardino di Alessandro: Disco in forma di rosa del deserto n. 1 (1993-1994) and Sfera Grande (1966-1967), the fibreglass version of the first and most important large Sphere created by the artist, an authentic cornerstone of Pomodoro’s oeuvre, which is part of the Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection.