The Beverly Pepper Projects Foundation presents the exibition of Mark Di Suvero – Spacetime

From August 24 to October 27, 2024, Todi (PG) pays homage to Mark di Suvero (1933), one of the most important living sculptors associated with the generation of abstract expressionism and a key figure in environmental and public art on an international level

The initiative, curated by Marco Tonelli and promoted by the Fondazione Progetti Beverly Pepper in collaboration with the Municipality of Todi, takes place as part of the fourth edition of the Festival of Arts. It features a solo exhibition of the American artist of Italian origin, the first in Italy since 1995, spread throughout the center of the Umbrian town.

The exhibition route ideally begins at Piazza del Popolo, which hosts the large sculpture “Neruda’s Gate” (2005), dedicated to the Chilean poet who died a few days after Augusto Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. This enormous portal, about 8 meters high, is painted red, a typical color of many of the American artist’s steel sculptures. The structure, slightly tilted, is crossed by a long steel beam to create a dynamic effect that accentuates its expressive and dramatic force.

The work, which will remain in Todi under a loan agreement at the end of the exhibition, is one of the various tributes to famous figures that di Suvero has created throughout his long career, such as scientists and mathematicians like Galileo, Kepler, or Lobachevsky, composers such as Schubert, Scarlatti, or Mozart, or other poets like Baudelaire, Rilke, Marianne Moore, Gerard Manley Hopkins, or Yeats. The sculpture also highlights the political commitment that di Suvero has often expressed in his works, which, although abstract and geometric, cannot be said to be devoid of emotional and existential involvement with the events of reality and historical happenings.