Sphere Within Sphere

In 1966, Pomodoro was commissioned to create a 3.5-meter sphere for Expo 67 in Montreal.

The success of this sculpture propelled Pomodoro's works into the mainstream, allowing for commissions that would land his sculptures at the Headquarters of the United Nations and the Vatican Museums.

They are meant to represent the 'ideal city,' with contrasting imagery of organic and human shapes combined with technological and gear-like components.

Pomodoro describes his desire for building these sculptures, stating, "breaking these perfect, magic forms in order to reveal their internal ferment, mysterious and alive, monstrous and yet pure; I [want to] create a discordant tension, a conflict, with the polished shine: a unity composed of incompleteness.

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