Argan, Giulio Carlo, Beverly Pepper, Galleria Pogliani, September – October 15, Via Gregoriana, Rome, Italy
Catalog of the first exhibition of sculptures by the artist with a short critical introduction by Giulio Carlo Argan, the exhibition’s curator. After traveling to Cambodia in 1960, Beverly Pepper moved from painting to sculpture. The first production exhibited here includes wooden works with bronze and brass inserts recalling the roots of the banyan trees that shrouded the ancient Cambodian Khmer sanctuary in a perfect coexistence between nature and civilization.