Giò Pomodoro

Alba Polenghi Lisca originally trained as a painter, attended Brera Academy with Achille Funi and participated in collective and personal exhibitions as a painter. After a short period spent in studying ceramics and stones engraving in 1983 She began a three-dimensional research, using metal and creating her own jewels. The last group of her creations shown in 2016 were exhibited at the Milan Triennale with "Brillant! The futures of Italian jewelery" curated by Alba Cappellieri, later at the Design Museum with W. Women in Italian Design, curated by Silvana Annechiarico, and at the Coda Museum in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands with Private Confessions curated by Ellen Maurer Zilioli. An year later a traveling exhibition saw her creations at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and at the Jewelery Museum in Vicenza, with Skin: the surface of Jewelery curated by Alba Cappellieri and Livia Tenuta. Her continuous expressive experimentation shows a close relation to the medium of painting in its morphology of light and movement and her love for jewels.

The present necklace was a gift from her husband in 28 June 1966 and a joke between her and Giò Pomodoro that presented her the original sketch for his work.

The necklace was exhibited for the Italian Metamorphosis: 1943-1968 , curated by Germano Celant for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 1994 -August 1995 and and published as n° 313 in the book.

Later exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Museum and more over for I gioielli di Giò Pomodoro: Il segno e l'ornamento curated by Alba Cappellieri for Museo del Gioiello, Vicenza, March 2018.

Cf: Gli ori, "I GIOIELLI di GIO' POMODORO, Il segno e l'ornamento", Paola Stroppiana, page 61.

Inner circumference approximately 450mm, signed Giò Pomodoro '66, accompanied by original artist's sketch and Alba Polenghi Lisca's paper box. In very good conditions. Necklace weight 126 grams approximately, gross weight 341.55grams including the paper box by Alba Polenghi.