Amalia Del Ponte
Amalia Del Ponte (15 January 1936 – 16 August 2025) was an Italian visual 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.