Edition of 5,000 designed by Bruce Montgomery for the Berkeley Art Museum, 1970. Eighteen silver-coated card panels, each 9 × 12 in., housed loosely (cover missing).
A sculptural book in pieces: eighteen cards, silver as moonlight or an old coin, metallic yet soft to the touch. Each card is notched so the reader can build the “house” in any form—an architecture of chance and balance. Printed on one side are photographs of Pomodoro’s globe-like sculptures, images that blur the line between documentation and invention; on the verso, plain silver plates accompany a correspondence between Pomodoro and curator Tom L. Freudenheim, extending the conversation between art, material, and technology.
A toy, a text, a structure to live beside. I would sit next to it, listening to opera.
Edition of 5,000 designed by Bruce Montgomery for the Berkeley Art Museum, 1970. Eighteen silver-coated card panels, each 9 × 12 in., housed loosely (cover missing).
A sculptural book in pieces: eighteen cards, silver as moonlight or an old coin, metallic yet soft to the touch. Each card is notched so the reader can build the “house” in any form—an architecture of chance and balance. Printed on one side are photographs of Pomodoro’s globe-like sculptures, images that blur the line between documentation and invention; on the verso, plain silver plates accompany a correspondence between Pomodoro and curator Tom L. Freudenheim, extending the conversation between art, material, and technology.
A toy, a text, a structure to live beside. I would sit next to it, listening to opera.
