Amalia Del Ponte

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, Bruno Munari, Gillo Dorfles, 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 São Paulo Art Biennial.