Arnaldo, Beverly e l’Umbria

With the aim of promoting a greater understanding of Arnaldo Pomodoro's work and ensuring full accessibility to the public of his material and immaterial heritage, the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation is collaborating this year on the realization of the second edition of the Festival delle Arti (July 24 – September 26) and the 35th edition of the Todi Festival (August 28 – September 5).

The rich program of the 2021 Festival delle Arti, aimed at enhancing the works of Arnaldo Pomodoro and Beverly Pepper in Umbria, will kick off on July 24, with events scheduled until Sunday September 26, some of which will be included in the subsequent program of the Todi Festival, whose poster was signed by Arnaldo Pomodoro himself, who decided to reinterpret one of his Scettri in the form of a graphic sign.

The curtain will rise on Saturday, July 24 with the temporary installation of the four Stele (1997-2000), in the evocative Piazza del Popolo in Todi, and the Scettri (1987-1988) at the nearby Giardini Oberdan. In this case, these are five aluminum sculptures loaned free of charge by the Foundation to the City of Todi.

Activities will then resume on Saturday, August 28, coinciding with the first day of Todi Festival, when, at the Sala delle Pietre, the temporary exhibition Labyr-Into. Dentro il labirinto di Arnaldo Pomodoro will be inaugurated. The exhibition, running until September 26, will allow visitors to virtually enter Arnaldo Pomodoro’s environmental artwork Ingresso nel labirinto.

As a synthesis and continuation of the project “Arnaldo, Beverly and Umbria,” the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro and the Fondazione Progetti Beverly Pepper present “Dear Umbria,” a project born from the close collaboration between the two foundations – and with the support of Colacem, Colabeton, Park Hotel Ai Cappuccini, and Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Perugia, with the patronage of Regione Umbria – with the aim of launching an activity of dissemination through the promotion of a contemporary artistic itinerary that allows the reconstruction of the artists' key biographical stages in the Umbrian territory while also initiating a process of regeneration of collective spaces. In doing so, individual locations become stops on a larger open-air museum spread across the regional territory.