Giò Pomodoro was born in Orciano di Pesaro in 1930 (Milan 2003).
In the '50s, he moved to Milan with his brother, Arnaldo, cooperating with Gesto magazine and participating in the exhibitions of the Gruppo Continuità, supported by Giulio Carlo Argan, Guido Ballo and Franco Russoli. By the end of the '50s, he developed his Superfici in tensione, in which he took the concept of no ousting of space, trying to give life to form regarded as a result of the presence of space. At first, they were made up of fabric but later of fiberglass, marble and shiny or glossy bronze. Matter—as form without shape—has been replaced by form spread in space. Pomodoro's sculptures seem to have a great mystery: the author highlights grandiosity through dimensions and makes reference to the culture of ancient civilizations such as the Egyptian and Greek ones, without leaving out human society, in other words, without neglecting civic elements.
In the last years, he was exploring emptiness and he had chosen marble as it adapted itself to such absence, to such emptying of space he was searching for.

Among Pomodoro's most important recent presentations, it's worth mentioning his solo room at the XLI Venice Biennial and the retrospective at the Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa, both in 1984. In 1986, he exhibited his works at the Palazzo Ducale di Pesaro and, in 1992, at the Museo Archeologico (Archaeological Museum) of Milan.
In 1993, he presented his Sculptures & Drawings exhibition at The Genie Schreiber University Art Gallery in Tel Aviv. In 1996, his sculptures were presented at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and, in 1997, at the FIT Museum of New York. In 2002, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award Contemporary Sculpture 2002 prize, conferred by the International Sculpture Center.

Giò Pomodoro's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1999, when one of his exhibitions was presented at the gallery. The exhibition included his sculptures and works on paper from 1958 to 1998. On that occasion, a catalogue with texts with Marco Meneguzzo was published. In 2000, in cooperation with the gallery, he presented the volume Giò Pomodoro, L’opera disegnata, a reasoned monograph that encompasses all his creations on paper, with texts by Giovanni Maria Accame. The volume was presented along with his second one-man show at the gallery.