Todi, Sept. 14 opening of Beverly Pepper Park, first contemporary sculpture park in Umbria

On September 14, the Beverly Pepper Park will be inaugurated in Todi, the first monothematic contemporary sculpture park in Umbria and the first by U.S. artist Beverly Pepper (New York, 1922) in the world: a sculpture park, a nature-urban path immersed in greenery between the city’s medieval walls, which will connect the Temple of Santa Maria della Consolazione with the historic center.

The Park, which connects two important points of the city, will allow visitors to fully enjoy the interaction between artwork, landscape, monumentality and urban context, and as the artist tells us, “I hope to contribute to helping Todi regain the energy it once had. The desire to show itself to the world again, to welcome and attract people curious about ancient art, contemporary art and a landscape of great beauty.”

The Beverly Pepper Park, specially designed and planned by the artist, will be dotted with twenty sculptures donated by the American artist to the city of Todi, all from her private collection, twenty works created with different materials (iron, stainless steel, stone) in different artistic periods (from 1960 to the 2000s), alongside the two San Martino Altars (1993) and the re-edition of the Todi Columns. The project includes the reclamation of the entire affected area and the restoration of all the works, and the tireless sculptor has designed sculpture benches for the park, which she calls lunettes, made of pietra serena, a local stone from the quarries of Lake Trasimeno, conceived as vantage points from which to admire the works or meditative spots in which to pause, listen to nature and admire art.

The full publication on the sculpture park will be edited by Joseph Antenucci Becherer of theUniversity of Notre Dame. “It is with immense joy,” Beverly Pepper emphasizes, “that I look forward to this new project for Todi, a new energy for the town that marries its history with my own path as an artist, who has always been committed in Land Art projects to creating a vital link between the sculptures and the naturalistic context. Art and nature that stimulate man in an inner quest that tends to the infinite.”

For all information you can visit the official website of the Beverly Pepper Projects Foundation.

Pictured: the Beverly Pepper columns installed in Piazza del Popolo, Todi

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Todi, Sept. 14 opening of Beverly Pepper Park, first contemporary sculpture park in Umbria

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