Amphisculpture
Amphisculpture L’Aquila
Beverly Pepper Amphisculpture 2018 is a documentary film about the land art work donated by the U.S. artist to the city of L’Aquila, a work connected to the
restoration and recovery site of the Basilica of Collemaggio and the adjacent Parco del Sole.
The documentary takes shape from the artist’s narrative in his studio in Todi, among working tools, early sketches and models, witnesses to the birth of the idea and the work. In parallel, images of the Parco del Sole will illustrate the transformation of the place and the building of the work.
Beverly Pepper’s project is a very courageous work of art, especially
because of the significance and relationship it will have with the city. An artistic idea that, adapting itself to the place, in delicate balance, adapting it, re-marking it in new forms.
26 and 52 minutes
Italy
language: English
subtitles : Italian, English
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Beverly Pepper
Beverly Pepper (Brooklyn 1922), studied advertising design, photography and industrial design in Brooklyn and Paris. In the early 1960s she began sculpting by first making small forms in wood and clay and then metal while working in the Italsider workshops in Piombino. In the following years he experimented with real forms of connectiv-art and environmental projects, eventually arriving at his large land-art works. He has participated in countless group and solo exhibitions, and his works are in major museums around the world. He has lived and worked in Todi since 1972.
