Arnaldo Pomodoro. In the gardens of the Royal Palace in Paris. Ediz. illustrata

text by Carlo Bertelli, Pierre Restany, Jacqueline Rissetphotographs by Paolo Mussat SartorThis book, which documents the anthological retrospective held in 2002 in the gardens of the Palais-Royal in Paris, traces almost forty years in the career of the master from Pesaro Arnaldo Pomodoro through forty of the artist’s monumental sculptures created between 1962 and 2000. The sculptures demonstrate the extraordinary continuity of a body of work dealing with the eternal human mystery.The sculptures, which have an unmistakable style, are characterised by the strength of pure form and the reflecting splendour of metals with their smooth and polished surfaces that split open in crevices and craters.As explained by Pierre Restany in his essay, the work of Arnaldo Pomodoro “gives the surrounding space an undeniable and definitive monumental presence. The secret of the artist’s spontaneous communicability resides in the happy marriage of two exceptional skills: the strength in formal terms of t