Overview

• Arnaldo Pomodoro died at his home in Milan on June 23, 2025, a day before his 99th birthday.
• He was celebrated for abstract geometric sculptures in noble materials such as bronze and gold, most notably his split 'Sphere Within Sphere' series.
• His works occupy prominent public sites worldwide, including the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Italian foreign ministry in Rome and civic spaces in Darmstadt, Nuremberg and Cologne.
• Born in 1926 in Morciano di Romagna, he studied art before moving to Milan with his brother Giò Pomodoro, where he gained rapid international recognition.
• The Italian Ministry of Culture and his foundation issued tributes lauding him as a leading figure of postwar modernism whose open spheres symbolized humanity’s fragility and complexity.