Who is Giuseppe Penone?

Giuseppe Penone was born on April 3, 1947 in Garessio, Italy. In 1970, he graduated from the Accademia Albertina in Turin, Italy, where he studied sculpture.

When did Giuseppe Penone work on suture?

In the personal exhibition presented at the Église Courmelois at Val-De-Vesle in 1991, Penone displayed the large sculpture titled Suture (“Sutures”), which he worked on between 1987 and 1991.

What experiments did Giuseppe Penone do on trees?

In another of Penone’s earliest experiments, Continuerà a crescere tranne che in quel punto (“It Will Continue to Grow Except at that Point”) (1968), he inserted a steel cast of his hand in a tree trunk, forcing the tree to grow around his hand.

When did Penone start making Albero sculptures?

Penone created his first Albero (“Tree”) sculpture in 1969, a series which continues to the present. Since this time, his practice has continued to explore and investigate the natural world and the poetic relationship between man and nature, artistic process and natural process.

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The Italian sculptor tells Apollo how he has learnt through touch and repetition Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) at work on Cedro di Versailles (Versailles Cedar) (2000-2003) in his studio in Turin. Photo © Archivio Penone The first thing I notice, as Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) swings open the door to his studio, is the sweet fragrance of pinewood.

Where is Giuseppe Penone being the River repeating the forest?

Photographs of the work will feature in ‘Giuseppe Penone: Being the River, Repeating the Forest’ (19 September–10 January 2016) at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, the first US museum exhibition dedicated to the artist for more than 30 years.

What does Giuseppe Penone’s studio smell like?

The first thing I notice, as Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) swings open the door to his studio, is the sweet fragrance of pinewood. Walking into a cavernous warehouse, we are confronted with the vast, capsized trunk of a conifer, and around it various power tools for sawing and carving, and industrial machinery for moving large objects.

How does Penone approach equivalence in his art?

It is through the sense of touch that Penone has most fully approached this equivalence, particularly in works that dwell on how the skin gathers information about the world, or how sight propagates conventions or deceptions.