Amalia Del Ponte (Milan, 936) lives and works in Milan and Venice. A pupil of Marino Marini at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera between 1956 and 1961, she has been working for years on a personal, independent research matching her formal rigor with her interest for archetypes, a subject connecting art with the problems of science. Since the beginning of her activity, in the early 1960s, she has addressed the question of the void, of light, and of the inner structure of matter. Amalia Del Ponte began her artistic journey working with the traditional materials of sculpture: plaster, terracotta, marble, bronze…

…In 1973, Bruno Munari and Umbro Apollonio invited her to participate to the Sao Paulo Biennale, where she exhibited three works: How do you feel?, Shan and Area percettiva. The latter was a cubical environment (6 meters on each side) with angles and corners smoothed out on the inside, painted white and lit by a blinding white light. Inside, she placed two large Perspex prisms and four landmarks: a postcard, a card with a telephone number written on, the plaster impression of a hand and two marble eyes. On this occasion, Amalia Del Ponte was awarded the First International Prize for Sculpture.