On Fictions: "Libra Days," Gio' Pomodoro, 1983

As of Oct. 31, 2017, IULM University is hosting Gio' Pomodoro's work On Fictions: "Libra Days."

Below are the words of Emilio Mazza, associate professor of history of philosophy, on the occasion of the installation on campus

"This wooden panel, painted with mixed media, mostly acrylic tempera, exhibits recurring elements in the pictorial work of sculptor Gio' Pomodoro. The sun, the 3 and the moon. The square, the beam and the sphere. Time, the pyramid and infinity. The scale, the scale and the plumb line. Art and geometry, in short.

Geometry in color: red, yellow, blue and white.

Here it is not only the sign that alludes to three-dimensional space, as in the large watercolors and oxides on Spanish handmade paper of the 1990s; it is not only the color that transforms the drawing into an animated body that leaps out of the paper.

The panel is in relief. There are shadows. If we unfold the panel, the Sun rises - "The great factory without owners or workers," as Gio called it. The Sun with a scale.

If someone were to ask me the inescapable, legitimate, but not always appropriate question, especially for those who are forced to answer it, "what is the point, what does it mean?", I would risk being childish: after all, for Heraclitus-Jo liked Heraclitus-time, life, is a child playing and moving pawns: the realm of a child. I would respond jokingly: Tomato, gold-gold; balance gold reed-anchor. How many days have you been in France? Because here I hear echoes of reading Jules Boucher, the writer, and his Symbology, which Pomodoro studied for the scenes of The Magic Flute, performed at La Fenice in 1980 and directed by Giorgio Pressburger."