Arnaldo Pomodoro Entering the Labyrinth (1995

FONDAZIONE ARNALDO POMODORO
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Entering the Labyrinth (1995-2011)
This work, inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first
epic poem of human history, inscribed on clay tablets in
cuneiform, was started in 1995 for an exhibition at the
Galleria Marconi, Milan. It took shape in the underground
spaces of the ex Riva Calzoni building in via Solari,
the former exhibition space of the Fondazione Arnaldo
Pomodoro and now the Milanese headquarters of Fendi,
where it remains as a permanent installation.
The work refers to the theme of the journey and the
labyrinth as a metaphor for life and is a tribute to writing
and communication.
Entering the Labyrinth (1995-2011)
area of c. 170 mq with maximum height of 3.80 m
bronze, copper, coloured and glazed fibreglass
Photo by Dario Tettamanzi
Environment di 170 mquadri circa
con altezza massima di 3,80 m
bronzo, rame, fiberglass colorato e patinato
A place exists – oneiric, ineffable – that we all know,
we all experience: it is the archetype of the labyrinth,
which sends us back to the eternal challenge of the
secret of life and that over the millennia has revealed
itself in myth and art.
My Entering the Labyrinth is an invitation into the
meanderings of a journey, where time is transformed
into space and space becomes time.
A reflection on all my work: the act of re-appropriation
and recovery of an artistic activity that has spanned
the decades of my life and makes up a sort of
synthesis.
Because the labyrinth can only be a journey, in
unveiling itself as the dark engine of every human
experience that always takes place between impulses
and impasses, stops and starts: in its progress
towards a maturity which is a return to the beginning
and its uncertainty.
Because I believe, as Bruno Schulz has written, that
“maturing towards infancy would be the authentic
maturity”.
A.P.
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fotografie Dario Tettamanzi