Documentary 2019

Beverly Pepper’s Umbria

The Umbria of Beverly Pepper is the first documentary in the trilogy. It chronicles Beverly’s life in Italy.

The Umbria of Beverly Pepper is the first documentary in the trilogy. It chronicles Beverly’s life in Italy.

Made possible thanks to the Region of Umbria, for the 58th Venice Biennale, it is dedicated to the riches of the Umbrian land and the open-air museum itinerary composed of the works Beverly has created in Spoleto, Assisi, Brufa, Panicale, Terni, Perugia, and Todi over the past 60 years.

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.

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