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William Kentridge, preliminary drawing for Triumphs and Laments (2014), a project of TEVERETERNO. Image courtesy the artist.

William Kentridge, installation view of Triumphs and Laments exhibition in the Italian Pavilion, 2015 Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Fulvio Ambrosio

2015 END OF YEAR PROGRAMMING REPORT This is an exciting time for TEVERETERNO, as we conclude our eleventh year of cultural programming, made possible by people like you, who have joined in our ongoing effort to revitalize Rome’s Tiber River through vibrant contemporary art. We are delighted to bring you the latest news of our educational and environmental initiatives with international architecture event O p e n H o u s e R o m e and local community organization R e t a k e R o m e , as well as our ongoing work with internationally acclaimed artist W i l l i a m K e n t r i d g e toward the realization of Triumphs and Laments: A Project for the City of Rome (scheduled to open on A p r i l 2 1 - 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 ), including an inside look at the artist’s most recent site tests on the Tiber and his exhibition of preparatory drawings for the City of Rome at this year’s V e n i c e B i e n n a l e . Founded in 2004, TEVERETERNO is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the establishment and ongoing stewardship of Piazza Tevere: the first and largest public space for contemporary art on Rome’s urban waterfront. In 2015, our organization reached over 10,000 people through free public programming at our adopted site, bringing contemporary art into the heart of the Eternal City. Through collaborations with community associations like Retake Rome, major cultural institutions like la Biennale di Venezia, and an active online presence that invites public discourse, we are able to reach several thousand more, both locally and around the world. Many of these people might never venture into a museum, gallery, or concert hall – but with your help, we are able to bring challenging, innovative, and inspiring work into their daily lives, creating a lively public space for contemporary art both on and beyond the Tiber.

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W i l l i a m K e n t r i d g e : T r i u m p h s a n d L a m e n t s a t t h e V e n i c e B i e n n a l e Kentridge’s Drawings for Rome Featured in the Italian Pavilion of La Biennale Arte 2015 TEVERETERNO was very pleased to join South African artist W i l l i a m K e n t r i d g e in the Italian Pavilion at this year’s B i e n n a l e d i V e n e z i a . Curator Vincenzo Trione invited Kentridge to exhibit in the Italian Pavilion as just one of three international artists creating major works in homage to the nation of Italy. On view for the first time, the works exhibited are Kentridge’s exploratory drawings – and a hand-cut stencil, measuring 8m (over 26 feet) long – for Triumphs and Laments, an extraordinary work of astonishing scale. His most ambitious project to date, Triumphs and Laments will be a 550-meter long, 10-meter high frieze erased from the biological patina on the embankment walls that line Rome’s urban waterfront. More than 80 figures will depict Rome’s greatest victories and defeats from mythological time to present, forming a silhouetted procession on Piazza Tevere, TEVERETERNO’s adopted site between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini on Rome’s Tiber River. Kentridge’s charcoal drawings will be turned into ink drawings – one of which is currently on view in the Italian Pavilion (through November 22). The ink drawings will be made into full-scale stencils, like the large cutout figure of Dead Pasolini illustrated at right. The stencils will then be used to power-wash the travertine walls of Piazza Tevere, which have been darkened by over a century of pollution and organic growth. The pressurized hot water will remove the accumulated sediment from the naturally white stone of the embankment walls – cleaning the area around the stencils to reveal a grand-scale procession of silhouetted figures along the Tiber’s right bank.

William Kentridge William Kentridge is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, embraced by museums and the general public alike. His 2013-14 Refusal of Time exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art attracted crowds in the tens of thousands and was hailed by the New York Times as “audience pleasing in the best, positive sense… ambitious,” going on to say that his 2015 production of Lulu at the Metropolitan Opera, “put the Met the center of the New York contemporary art scene.” His work for the city of Rome promises to draw viewers from around the world to the banks of the Tiber, breathing new life into the city and stimulating broad public interest in the Piazza Tevere as a unique gathering space and place for contemporary art. William Kentridge, Dead Pasolini (2015)

Hand-cut stencil, 4 meters x 8 meters Italian Pavilion, 2015 Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Fulvio Ambrosio

William Kentridge, installation view of Triumphs and Laments exhibition in the Italian Pavilion, 2015 Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Fulvio Ambrosio

William Kentridge and Kristin Jones at the May 2015 opening of the Triumphs and Laments exhibition, Italian Pavilion, 2015 Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Gaia Baldini

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Test figure (Toro) for Triumphs and Laments, Tiber River, Rome, Italy. Photo: Marcello Melis

T e c h n i c a l R e p o r t : A n E p h e m e r a l W o r k f o r t h e E t e r n a l C i t y Site Tests on the Tiber Embankment Walls This October, TEVERETERNO oversaw a series of site tests on the Tiber River in preparation for the April 2016 opening of William Kentridge’s grand-scale work for the City of Rome, entitled Triumphs and Laments. The two test figures, rising up to 10 meters (33 feet) high on the Tiber’s travertine embankment walls, were created with the same process of selective cleaning that will be used for the complete frieze: the artist’s charcoal sketches are converted first to ink drawings and then to vectorial files, which are used to create large-scale, alveolar polypropylene stencils. These large stencils are then temporarily applied to the wall, and low-pressure water is used to clean the darkened stone around them. When the stencils are removed, the figures appear in dark grey against a newly cleaned, white travertine background. The nature of the technique renders the work temporary; without the application of biocides or a sealer, the accumulated sediment and the microorganisms that comprise the stone’s patina will grow back and reclaim the wall, causing the frieze to vanish over time. It will thus be a temporary installation – a living work, which will disappear naturally. The stone itself will not be changed in any way. The temporal nature of the work is very much a part of the artist’s concept; Kentridge has described the completion of the project as the beginning of a very long film, with the frieze dissolving slowly back into the patina of the wall over the course of the coming years.

Test Figure (Winged Victory) for Triumphs and Laments, Tiber River, Rome, Italy. Photo: G. Lucchino

4 The Paths of Water: from the Janiculum to the Tiber, a public program of TEVERETERNO for Open House Rome 2015. Photo: Luca Marcotullio

The Paths of Water: from the Janiculum to the Tiber, a public program of TEVERETERNO for Open House Rome 2015. Photo: Luca Marcotullio

Kermesse (2015), a project of TEVERETERNO produced for Open House Rome 2015, Piazza Tevere, Rome, Italy. Photo: Luca Marcotullio

O p e n H o u s e R o m e 2 0 1 5 An Annual Celebration of the City of Rome

On Saturday, May 9, 2015, TEVERETERNO participated in international architecture event O p e n H o u s e R o m e for the third consecutive year, featuring a full day of free public programming.

The Paths of Water: from the Janiculum to the Tiber For the 2015 edition of Open House Rome, TEVERETERNO returned to the Janiculum Hill to explore the passage of water as it descends toward the Tiber. The architect-guided tour began at the Acqua Paola fountain, proceeding into the Botanical Gardens and through the gardens of Palazzo Corsini and Villa Farnesina, arriving at our adopted site on the Tiber River, Piazza Tevere, just before sunset for TEVERETERNO’s evening program, the Kermesse. Led by TEVERETERNO Onlus Vice President, architect V a le r ia S a s s a n e lli , The Paths of Water: from the Janiculum to the Tiber was presented in partnership with the Orto Botanico, the Accademia dei Lincei and the Sovraintendenza Capitolina.

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The Kermesse

At sunset along the Tiber’s banks, an experimental sound event began to unfold as numerous percussion groups, students and teachers both, from a variety of Roman music schools came together to play at the Piazza Tevere, improvising, merging and weaving different styles - Mediterranean, Latin-American, African, Japanese, and more – to create moments of chance discovery and surprise. The sound of the many instruments, which once accompanied marches, battles, rituals, oracles, departures, prayers, feasts and dances, echoed across the water and stirred hidden memories of place through the rich multicultural reality of today’s Rome. The Kermesse was conceived and coordinated by I s a b e l l e B i n e t . Participating schools included: l’Associazione Semilla, the Japanese percussion course of the Associazione Affabulazioni, the Scuola di Tamburello di Davide Conte, the Scuola di Percussioni di Stefano Rossini Roma, the Franceso Pitarra school, the Scuola di Percussione Timba, the Istituto Comprensivo Virgilio, Tony William, Duo Benkadi of Inoussa, and Dembele.

Kermesse (2015), a project of TEVERETERNO produced for Open House Rome 2015, Piazza Tevere, Rome, Italy. Photo: Luca Marcotullio

R e t a k e R o m e : T e v e r e P u l i t o Earth Day marked the conclusion of ten days of activities on the Tiber, during which TEVERETERNO partnered with organizations like R e t a k e R o m e , John Cabot University Grassroots Club, Trastevere Attiva, Context Travel, Notre Dame Global Gateway, the U.S. Embassy to Italy, and many others. Director T o m R a n k i n escorted A m b a s s a d o r J o h n P h i l l i p s and Linda Douglass to Piazza Tevere, where friends and volunteers of TEVERETERNO joined them to share the vision and passion behind our dream for the Tiber. Rome's symbolic birthday (April 21, 2015) was celebrated with a bicycle excursion along the Tiber riverfront with a huge group of students from Notre Dame Global Gateway, live-tweeting to thousands of followers (#teverepulito).

H o w Y o u C a n H e l p TEVERETERNO is committed to producing high quality, contemporary arts projects for the general public, transforming the Tiber River in Rome into a vibrant, open space through cultural events and educational programming that support the long-term revitalization of the city’s urban waterfront. Over the past three years, we have worked in close collaboration with William Kentridge and Philip Miller toward the realization of Triumphs and Laments – our most ambitious project to date; once complete, it will be the longest frieze ever created in the history of Rome, and the city's largest artwork since the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We are very pleased to announce that this spring, Roma Capitale and the Soprintendenza Nazionale finally granted the last of the required permits to produce this grand-scale work.

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W i l l i a m K e n t r i d g e ’ s T r i u m p h s a n d L a m e n t s w i l l o p e n o n A p r i l 2 1 - 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 . You can help to shape the future of the Eternal City. TEVERETERNO has always been a 90% volunteer organization, working with a small, dedicated team in the United States and Italy to produce major contemporary works for a uniquely public space in the center of Rome. Since our founding in 2004, the organization has been fuelled entirely by the inspiration, perseverance, and generosity of people like you, who represent the single largest source of support for the ongoing project. Triumphs and Laments will be a defining work for the City of Rome – the first, major contemporary public artwork produced for the historic city in many centuries. We have been hard at work on the project with Kentridge for some time now: from the ongoing historical research conducted by our team of scholars (led by Dr. Lila Yawn and Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri) to the 2012 projection tests on the Tiber, the 2013 power-washing tests at Ponte Regina Margherita, the 2014 workshops at MAXXI and the American Academy in Rome, and our 2015 presence at the Venice Biennale. Friends of TEVERETERNO know that the April 21-22, 2016 premiere of Triumphs and Laments will be a major triumph. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to TEVERETERNO through our US fiscal sponsor, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), one of the United States’ most respected not-for-profit arts organizations. Your support will help us to continue our work for the cultural revival of Rome’s river and bring Triumphs and Laments to life. The attached materials contain information on the Triumphs and Laments frieze and its opening program, our financial goals and valued supporters, how the project fits into TEVERETERNO’s larger vision for the Tiber, and complete details on how you can become part of this extraordinary project. Be among the first to experience it – join us in Rome next April 2016 for the international premiere of this one of a kind work, a tribute to the City of Rome. The vision, as always, is optimistic: it begins with a single drop of Tiber River water, and is founded in hope for rivers around the world. Join us!

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William Kentridge, preliminary drawing for Triumphs and Laments, ink on ledger paper. Image courtesy the artist.

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