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Over his career, Pomodoro has created 45 of these popular sculptures— aptly named Rotante, Sphera, or Sphera con sphera. The spheres range in size from as small as half a meter up to 4 meters in diameter. They are meant to represent the 'ideal city,' with contrasting imagery of organic and human shapes combined with technological and gear-like components. The spheres can be seen as a promising rebirth of a less troubled and destructive world. Pomodoro describes his desire for building these sculptures, stating, "breaking these perfect, magic forms in order to reveal their internal ferment, mysterious and alive, monstrous and yet pure; I [want to] create a discordant tension, a conflict, with the polished shine: a unity composed of incompleteness."
Versions of the sculpture can be found around the world, below is a comprehensive list (** indicates true Sphera con sphera sculptures. Unmarked locations allude to Sphera or Rotante).
United States

Berkeley, California: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
San Francisco, California: De Young Museum**
San Diego, California: The San Diego Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art
Des Moines, Iowa: American Republic Insurance Company Headquarters Building**
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum
Chicago, Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago
Indianapolis, Indiana: Christian Theological Seminary**
(2) Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art**
Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden**
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum
New York City, New York: Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)
New York City, New York: Museum of Modern Art
New York City, New York: United Nations Plaza**
Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum
Italy

Milan, Italy: Cimitero Monumentale
Milan, Italy: Gallerie di Piazza Scala
Milan, Italy: Museo del Novecento
Milan, Italy: Milano Santa Giulia
Milan, Italy: Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Parma, Italy: Collezione Barilla di Arte Moderna
Verona, Italy: Byblos Art Hotel**
Venice, Italy: Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Trieste, Italy: Museo Revoltella
Florence, Italy: Direzione Regionale di Intesa Sanpaolo
Pesaro, Italy: Piazzale della Libertà
Gubbio, Italy: Park hotel ai Cappuccini
Rome, Italy: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)
Rome, Italy: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna**
Rome, Italy: Hotel Palazzo Ripetta
Rome, Italy: Hilton Rome Airport**
Vatican City: Vatican Museums**
Greater Europe

Dublin, Ireland: Eavan Boland Library**
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen**
Monaco: Quai Jean-Charles Ray**
Warsaw, Poland: Royal Lazienki Museum**
Middle East

Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv University**
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Jeddah Sculpture Museum
Tehran, Iran: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Japan

Miyazaki, Japan: Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum**
Hiroshima, Japan: Fukuyama Museum of Art
(2) Kanagawa, Japan: The Hakone Open-Air Museum**
Kanagawa, Japan: Amada Co., Ltd.**
Hokkaido, Japan: Kushiro City Museum




See also


United Nations Art Collection
List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2




References






External links


flickr.com

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