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When science meets art
Bruto Pomodoro, who has been living and working for years in Pietrasanta, a small town cherished by sculptors and artists, talks about himself through his works and past.
The son of Giò Pomodoro and nephew of Arnaldo Pomodoro, two veritable masters in the art field, reveals something about his own philosophy and the mental archetypes from which humans (and art) should take inspiration.
Bruto, when did your artistic career begin?
Well, it all started in 1994, when I was being drawn more and more towards another profession, which was just as noble as being an artist: scientific drawing.
Born into an artistic family and passionate about drawing, I soon started arousing the curiosity of several key figures in the art world, such as critics and art gallery managers, who enquired as to why I didn’t exhibit my drawings.
In the end, they convinced me. I took a real risk: I already had a rewarding career and throwing myself wholeheartedly into the art world was a bit like taking a leap into the unknown.
What meaning do you ascribe to your art?
Some of my latest works, recently exhibited in Prato too, the "Codici Algenici" [The Algenic Codes] are representations of my interpretations of the genetic code, as analysed by geneticists. Using linearised DNA, a sort of Klimt-type decorative feature, as a starting point, I reach an archetypal germinative nucleus, a shape in progress.
Through another one of my pictorial cycles, the "Disgiunti" [The Unlinked], I pay homage to one of the greatest scientific intuitions of the twentieth century, ascribable to our great theoretician Enrico Fermi: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed". A philosophical tenet used to overcome the fear that is typical of the Western World, of death.
Since there are only stages of development between one form of energy and another, death, by implication, does not exist.
What is Shape for you?
Every artist has his own archetype that he refers to. Owing to the indissoluble ties with my former profession, my archetype has a biological origin.
However, one thing is certain: art for its own sake does not exist, else it would become decoration.
The archetype must be a mental habit; the concept underpinning the work of art.
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