Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro dies at 99

ROME: Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, renowned for his huge bronze spheres, died at the weekend, a day before his 99th birthday, his foundation said on Monday.

Born in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna on June 23, 1926, Pomodoro began investigating solid geometric forms in the early 1960s.

He created monumental spheres, cones, columns and cubes in polished bronze, whose perfectly smooth exteriors split open to reveal interiors that were corroded, torn or simply hollowed out.

This “contrast between the smooth perfection of the geometric form and the chaotic complexity of the interior” became his trademark, the Milan-based foundation said on its website.