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The Olympic Door of the Year 2000
Nag Arnoldi1999 - 2000
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
Sculpture of a large door, partially open, comprising the Olympic rings on its two columns and the figure “2000” inscribed on the lintel. At the top of this structure are four moving characters, holding aloft the Olympic rings. This sculpture symbolises, on the eve of the year 2000, an open door to success and victory. It invites the people of the whole world to cross the threshold of the new millennium and puts the next Olympic Games into their hands.
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Details
- Title: The Olympic Door of the Year 2000
- Creator Lifespan: 18 September 1928
- Creator Nationality: Swiss
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Birth Place: Locarno, Switzerland
- Date Created: 1999 - 2000
- Location Created: Switzerland
- Sculptor: Nag Arnoldi
- Physical Dimensions: h6000 cm
- Description: Foundry mark “Cera Persa Perseo Mendrisio”.
- Collection information: In addition to this bronze sculpture, which is 6m high and weighs 3,500kg, Nag Arnoldi also produced 250 small-scale replicas (41cm high, weighing 5.5kg). These replicas, ordered by the IOC, were presented to various government representatives via the 200 National Olympic Committees as a symbol of human understanding, peace, prosperity and well-being.
- Artistic school or movement: Nag Arnoldi is a sculptor, painter and professor born in the Ticino. His artistic training in Lugano allowed him to visit the studios of Filippo Boldini, Giuseppe Foglia, Carlo Cotti, Mario and Antonio Chiattone. He discovered Italy in the early 1950s and earned a diploma in theatre costume and dress design in Milan. Exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso and the works of the German expressionists helped Arnoldi to develop his artistic personality through painting, graphics, ceramics, glass and sculpture. Since the 1970s, Arnoldi has devoted himself almost entirely to sculpture and giving form to the themes of the horse, warriors and mythical figures in their dramatic essence.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2003, ©IOC/G.Peter
- External Link: IOC/The Olympic Museum
- Medium: Bronze sculpture
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