Amalia Del Ponte (born 1936) is an Italian artist and designer. Her work has been praised by critics and art historians such as Guido Ballo,

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, Arturo Schwarz, Francesco Tedeschi, Flaminio Gualdoni and Tommaso Trini. Del Ponte's work has been described as being suspended between art and science, through studies that investigate the relationship between sculpture, music, science and technology. Her international debut in the 1970s won First Prize for Sculpture at the

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Early life and education

Del Ponte was born in

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in 1936. Between 1956 and 1961 she studied sculpture under Marino Marini at the

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in Milan. Among her fellow students were Kengiro Azuma, Mario Robaudi and Gianni Colombo.

Career

In 1965 Amalia Del Ponte made her first sculptures in Plexiglas, based on an analysis of basic geometric shapes. Two years later Vittorio Fagone named these works ''Tropi'' during a solo show at Galleria Vismara in Milano. In the 1960s Del Ponte also designed the interiors of the fashion boutique ''Gulp!'' in Milan, and Elio Fiorucci's first shop. Del Ponte received international acclaim in 1973 when she was invited by Bruno Munari and Umbro Apollonio to participate at the

, where she won First Prize for Sculpture with her work ''Area percettiva''. In 1993, Del Ponte exhibited some of her ''lithophones'' at Fort Asperen in

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. In 1995,

invited Del Ponte to participate at the 46th

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, with a room dedicated to her work in the Italian Pavilion. Here she exposed an original set-up of ''lithophones,'' described as "sound stones that point out the invisible correspondences between geometric shapes, musical scales and colors". In 2010 she created a project for Certosa Island in the

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; this was a series of video installations set up in the four Case Matte. The art work, entitled ''Regno dei possibili, invisibili,'' is about how art and science make otherwise invisible reality visible.

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