Sfera di San Leo

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Sfera di San Leo (Sphere of San Leo) by Arnaldo Pomodoro, 1996-2000
Palais-Royal
Place Colette
Quartier du Palais-Royal, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2002

“The Sphere of San Leo is very different from Pomodoro’s previous spheres. After so many attempts at this form, the artist wanted to return in his memory to the places of his childhood and, thinking of the medieval fortress of San Leo, he covered the surface of the sphere with arrows, teeth, stays, as a reminder of an ancient weapon of war. There is no longer the contrast between the bright and smooth surface and its interior devoured by marks and signs: it seems that the erosion has reached even the outside, with a menacing but dynamic presence, because, as Jacqueline Risset wrote, ‘inside there is another smaller sphere, clean and intact, which is trying to emerge, communicating to the whole an idea of birth and renewal that seems to contradict the catastrophe.’” (Works around the World, Arnaldo Pomodoro)