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Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con sfera) describes a series of spherical bronze sculptures by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. In 1966, Pomodoro was commissioned to create a 3.5-meter sphere for Expo 67 in Montreal.
Some of Pomodoro's Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran ...
The sculpture, including the fountain, marked the center of the development and was a popular meeting place for New Yorkers. The work of art was dedicated to "world peace through trade". The original name "Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y." did not catch on with the New Yorkers. They called the spherical sculpture "Koenig Sphere" or simply "The Sphere ...
This transformation leaves the sphere in place, but moves points within the sphere according to a Möbius transformation. [15] Any polyhedron with a midsphere, scaled so that the midsphere is the unit sphere, can be transformed in this way into a polyhedron for which the centroid of the points of tangency is at the center of the sphere.
Installation of the work by artist Olafur Eliasson began early this summer and had passersby curious about what was under the big yellow bubble.
The points on the sphere are all the same distance from a fixed point. Also, the ratio of the distance of its points from two fixed points is constant. The first part is the usual definition of the sphere and determines it uniquely. The second part can be easily deduced and follows a similar result of Apollonius of Perga for the circle.
The sculpture is on one of Hepworth's favourite themes, enclosure of space. The work has a smooth spherical bronze shell resting on a square bronze base, with three large rounded openings presenting a view of an irregular pierced bronze shape enclosed within. The brown polished outer surface of the sphere contrasts with the greenish patina inside.
The monument's director told Discovery, "The 50,000 spectators had a ticket that said which numbered gate arch they were supposed to enter.Inside the arena, there were other numbers to help people ...