The square recounts Beverly Pepper’s donation of 23 works to the city of Todi for the creation of a park dedicated to her.
Forty years after the first installation of the Todi columns, the sculptures that caused a sensation in 1969 as a temporary installation during the landscaping of the park return to the city square. And an opportunity for Todians to engage again with contemporary art and with an artist who has now become a fellow citizen and a friend.

The Church of Santa Maria del Suffragio was built in memory of the victims of the 1703 earthquake. The work went on for over a century, but the people immediately named it Anime Sante.

The 2009 earthquake hit it hard, and the images of its dome collapsing on live television have become one of the most dramatic images of that disaster.

Ten years later, the documentary “Le Anime Sante” recounts one of the most careful and complex recovery and restoration sites among those that are rebuilding the city of L’Aquila. An important and special construction site for the symbol that the Anime Sante has always represented
and made possible by the collaboration between Italian and French restoration schools, the skill of the workers working on the site and the equal commitment of Italy and France.

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.

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.

An account of 3 years of the event that brought jazz to earthquake-stricken lands, in L’Aquila with the big event in 2015, L’Aquila and Amatrice with an event spread throughout Italy in 2016, and then in 2017 with 4 events in the earthquake-stricken regions of central Italy.

A visionary project, to bring the Italian jazz scene to L’aquila, in a single day inside a city-building site.
Dozens of squares and streets occupied by an army of musicians and audience fused seamlessly, in a surreal context that was silent until a few hours before.

The breaking of an ideal “fourth wall” with the world of entertainment.