An abstraction of the world in which we live, the core of this sculpture looks like something out of science fiction, but was actually inspired by Renaissance representations of an ideal city. Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro described it as symbolizing "the rebirth of a less troubled and destructive world"– his own way of visualizing a hopeful future.

1963-1965
Bronze
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

02.06.22