Giuseppe Penone

Lightning-struck Tree (2012), Giuseppe Penone. Photo: © Jonty Wilde; courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. WAKEFIEL.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting an extensive exhibition by Giuseppe Penone that recognises a partnership between one of the most eminent artists working today and one of the world’s foremost sculpture parks, marking the culmination of a dialogue that has evolved since the artist’s first visit to YSP in 1989. Works drawn from five decades of Penone’s career, from the... [Lire la suite]

© Giuseppe Penone.  AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Château La Coste une exposition de Giuseppe Penone à l’automne 2017 dans l’espace galerie dessiné par l’architecte Italien, Renzo Piano. Considérant le design de Piano, les abords et le paysage environnant, Penone a soigneusement choisi des travaux qui seront présentés à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de la galerie, créant un dialogue entre art, architecture et nature. Les travaux sur papier, les travaux à grande échelle en bronze et en marbre et la délicate réplication d’un seul... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone at the picture respirare l'ombra (2000). Photo Vincent Mentzel AMSTERDAM.- A bronze tree carrying a solid block of granite between its branches, a tree trunk with water gushing out of it, and images drawn from the artist’s own forehead are among the enigmatic works of Giuseppe Penone. This summer, the annual sculpture display in the Rijksmuseum’s gardens is dedicated to Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, 1947). It is the first time that, in addition to a number of earlier iconic works, new work... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone, Trappole di luce (Piège de lumière), 1995. Cristal et photographie noir & blanc. 37 x 20 cm et 99,5 x 69 x 1,5 cm. © Adagp, Paris 2016 PARIS - La photo occupa une place singulière dans le travail du sculpteur Auguste Rodin et c'est cette place et ce dialogue que le musée Rodin continue à explorer. Sur une proposition de Michel Frizot, historien de la photographie, cette exposition est une invitation à découvrir huit artistes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle ayant pratiqué de front la sculpture et la... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone, Riflesso del bronzo, 2004. Bronze. Dimensions variable © Archivo Penone A tree trunk of marble, of calcium, encloses, in our thought, the carbon, the plant, and the plant the camouflage of the color of the bronze, and the color of the bronze, the green of the foliage and the trees, the flowing of the material, of water, of rivers in which there courses the subterranean life of the world, of the veins whose flow is enclosed in our body as in the marble cave of the mountains. —Giuseppe... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone, Being the River, Repeating the Forest, installation view, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, September 19, 2015–January 10, 2016. Photo: Kevin Todora, courtesy Nasher Sculpture Center.  DALLAS, TX.- Nasher Sculpture Center announces a major exhibition of the work of the influential Italian artist, Giuseppe Penone, in an exhibition called Being the River, Repeating the Forest which opened September 19, 2015 and runs through January 10, 2016. Italian artist Giuseppe Penone has played an integral... [Lire la suite]

MILAN.- The next Modern and Contemporary Art sale of Sotheby’s Milan will be led by highly important works by Lucio Fontana, representing his entire artistic production, concurrently with the major Parisian retrospective.  Dating back to Fontana’s abstract and pre-Informal research, Tavoletta Graffita (Madonna) of 1934 is a rare and powerful work in coloured cement, and is estimated € 120,000-180,000. Follows a very specific italian Collection from the Fifties, entirely focused on ceramic works by Fontana: it comprises a number... [Lire la suite]

What fascinates me about trees is their structure: the tree is a being that memorializes the feats of its existence in its very form. Similarly, our bodies could be considered the sum of the performance of our existence. The tree can be considered a metaphor for the work of a sculptor who fixes his actions in the material.—Giuseppe Penone LONDON.- Gagosian London presents “Circling,” an exhibition of Giuseppe Penone’s monumental works Scrigno (Casket) (2007) and Sigillo (Seal) (2008).  In sculptures, drawings, photographs,... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone: When Man Meets Nature. A selling exhibition in Sotheby’s S|2 gallery in New York. 26 September - 18 October 2013. Photo: Sothebys NEW YORK - Beginning on 20 September, Sotheby's will host a selling exhibition of works by globally renowned Italian sculptor and conceptual artist, Giuseppe Penone, entitled When Man Meets Nature. Presenting 36 works, this selling exhibition will be one of the biggest shows of its kind in New York and will feature all mediums of his work including bronze, stone, photography... [Lire la suite]

Giuseppe Penone Versailles.  En 2013, l’artiste italien Giuseppe Penone est l’invité de Versailles. Ses sculptures, dont certaines sont produites spécifiquement pour l’exposition à Versailles, sont principalement présentées au public sur la Grande Perspective et dans le Bosquet de l'Etoile. L’artiste, chef de file de l’arte povera, rythmera les jardins de Le Nôtre avec ses sculptures d’arbres dans lesquelles végétal et minéral se mêlent pour dévoiler leur essence. "Avoir la possibilité de faire dialoguer mon travail avec... [Lire la suite]