Beverly Pepper

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Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922 in New York City , United States , † February 5, 2020 in Todi , Province of Perugia , Italy ) was an American painter and sculptor . She lived and worked in Todi, Italy, and in New York City.

life and work

Longo Monolith in the Bad Homburg spa gardens during Blickachsen 7 (2009)

Pepper was born Beverly Stoll in Brooklyn in 1922 . When she married the journalist and author Curtis Bill Pepper, she took his name. Pepper studied at the Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College . She knew the artist Frederick Kiesler and continued her studies in Paris in 1949 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . From 1949 she devoted herself to painting. She got to know the work of Fernand Léger , Ossip Zadkine , Brancusi and the cubist André Lhote . In 1951 she moved to Todi, Italy.

After visiting the Khmer temples of Angkor Wat in 1960, she turned almost exclusively to sculpture and art in public spaces . The exhibition organizer Giovanni Carandente invited her to Spoleto together with David Smith , Alexander Calder , Arnaldo Pomodoro , Lynn Chadwick and Pietro Consagra in 1962 to be able to work in a steelworks there as part of the Festival dei Due Mondi and then to be able to put her sculptures in public places City to exhibit. Pepper learned to weld from a blacksmith on the side. In a factory in Piombino, she assisted the skilled workers there in three shifts a day in order to learn the technology of steel processing. Pepper was one of the first sculptors to use Corten steel - since she worked in a steel mill in Conshohocken , Pennsylvania (USA) in 1964. She also worked with stainless steel, bronze , stone and cast iron . Since the 1970s, she has also repeatedly created monumental works that can be assigned to Land Art .

"Seeing, touching, and the physical sensory engagement is the way into my sculpture; my intention is that the meaning of my work rests in experiencing it. "

- Beverly Pepper

"I create work to discover it. To make its acquaintance. To sculpt a space. A sudden, energetic space. "

- Beverly Pepper

Pepper exhibited regularly at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York, and the Marlborough Gallery in Rome and New York.

In 2019, she donated sixteen sculptures to the city of Todi , of which she was an honorary citizen, which are part of the newly opened Beverly Pepper Sculpture Park .

Prizes and awards (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018: Drawn Into Form: Sixty Years of Drawings and Prints by Beverly Pepper , Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 2014: Beverly Pepper all'Ara Pacis . Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Rome
  • 2012: Beverly Pepper: Palingenesis 1965–2012 . Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 2011: Stone and Steel: Small Works by Beverly Pepper . Georgia Museum of Art, Athens (Georgia)
  • 2004: Beverly Pepper: Una poètica de l'espai . Casal Solleric, Mallorca
  • 1997: Beverly Pepper a Forte Belvedere, Trent'Anni di Sculptura . Fortezza di Santa Maria, San Giorgio del Belvedere, Florence
  • 1991: Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City; Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo
  • 1987: André Emmerich Gallery, New York. Catalog by Ronny Cohen
  • 1976: San Francisco Museum of Art
  • 1971: Hella Nebelung Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1965: Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome. Catalog by M. Gendel
  • 1952: Galleria dello Zodiaco, Rome. Catalog by Carlo Levi

Group exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Beverly Pepper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margalit Fox: Beverly Pepper, Sculptor of Monumental Lightness, Dies at 97. In: The New York Times , February 5, 2020 (English). Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Steel and Style . By Carlos Widmann, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 30, 2019
  3. ↑ a b At 96, the Sculptor Beverly Pepper Is Only Now Getting Credit for Using Cor-Ten Steel Way Before Richard Serra . By Sarah Cascone, artnet news, February 25, 2019
  4. ↑ Beverly Pepper Cor-Ten, Feb 23 - Mar 23, 2019, New York, Downtown . Marlborough Gallery
  5. ↑ Curvae in Curvae: New Sculptures by Beverly Pepper Marlborough Chelsea, 2012 Retrieved on March 18, 2013
  6. ^ Lifetime Achievement Award Gala Honoring Nancy Holt & Beverly Pepper , International Sculpture Center
  7. ^ Nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "P" / Pepper, Beverly, NA 2011 ( Memento of July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 6, 2015)
  8. ↑ Kent Washington website: Beverly Pepper.Retrieved March 18, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pepper, Beverly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoll, Beverly (maiden name); Pepper, Beverly Stoll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2020
Place of death Todi , Perugia Province , Italy