Milan/Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation "Everything is happy in the life of Art"

The Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation will be inaugurating an exhibition entirely dedicated to Carandente next September, creator and organizer of the event "Sculptures in the city" (Spoleto, 1962). But also a unique and unrepeatable event in the Italian art scene, and, on the other hand, gives an account of his critical ability to interpret the work of some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.
 
In 1962 in Spoleto, as part of the Festival dei due Mondi, Carandente had 106 sculptures by important Italian and international authors placed in the city, thus creating - for the first time in Italy - a real museum of contemporary art in the sky open. Ten of the participating artists – David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pietro Consagra, Lynn Chadwick and Ettore Colla, among others – were invited to create their works in the Italsider factories, located in various parts of Italy, in a innovative and profitable union between art and industry.
 
Thanks to the collaboration of Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts Spoleto - Carandente Museum and the contribution of Eugenio Carmi, Carlo Lorenzetti, Beverly Pepper, as well as the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, the Ansaldo Foundation Archive and some private collectors, they will be exhibited the sketches and design drawings of the sculptures created for Spoleto and various works by great international authors, such as Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Chillida, Henry Moore and David Smith, demonstrating the long and intense partnership that bound the artists and the critic.
 
On this occasion, the sixth number of the “I Quaderni” series will be published, the catalog of the exhibition and a valid study tool. In addition to the images of the exhibited works, the volume will include an anthology of critical texts by Giovanni Carandente, selected by Stefano Esengrini, and the testimonies of some of the protagonists of the Spoleto experience, collected specifically for the Notebook.
 
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Foundation will resume educational workshops, curated by Chiara Monetti and Franca Zuccoli, aimed at primary schools and families.