Giuseppe penone

Giuseppe Penone’s hand is so strong, it can squeeze trees. I’m talking about his bronze sculpture of a hand, of course. This Italian artist installed it onto a tree in Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in 1968, and it’s even more spectacular after many decades have passed.

March 28, 2020–January 3, 2021, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

#architecturesight⁣ Wood in the Works of Giuseppe Penone⁣ Piles of chestnuts and rooms filled with mushrooms, transported in enormous bags by donkeys” feature in the childhood memories of Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, 1947). After studying accounting, Guiseppe entered Art School, where he came to understand the need to create his own personal identity. In his own words ”I had friends at the school who had a little more training, who sculpted in the style of Giacometti. But something didn’t sit…

Giuseppe Penone Equivalenze, 2016 Bronze 113 3/4 × 93 5/16 × 66 15/16 inches (289 × 237 × 170 cm) © Giuseppe Penone Photo by Matteo D'Eletto, M3 Studio

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Documentation of Giuseppe Penone at Museum de Pont, Tilburg is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.

Find out more about the exhibition Giuseppe Penone: Leaves of Stone / Foglie di pietra at Hong Kong. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.

Giuseppe Penone September 9 – October 11, 2008 Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 6-8 pm Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased...

Exhibition | Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman’s London and Paris Galleries

The sculpture by Arte Povera giant Giuseppe Penone suggests a dreamy scenario where fragments of ancient buildings have been whisked into the air and lodged in trees.

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Artist Giuseppe Penone has carved away decades of growth to reveal the former young shape of the tree.

About a week ago I visited a favorite museum of mine De Pont in Tilburg. They had an exhibition of Giuseppe Penone, an Italian artist. Penone is the younger member of the Italian movement named 'Arte Povera' (poor art). Penone's work is concerned with establishing a contact between man and nature. The exhibition was quite big but only showed a small part of his beautiful and interesting work. The 'paintings' above look like the pattern on a handpalm from far off. But getting closer you see…

'"Mirrored lenses, when placed over my eyes, indicate the point that separates me from that which surrounds me. They are like a skin, a border element, the interruption of a channel of information...by blocking my vision I eliminate data necessary for my subsequent behaviour." -Guiseppe Penone "The Mirrored lenses were originally used for an action documented through a series of photographs by paolo mussat sartor. The artist's vision is presented as a literal reflector of his environment…

Giuseppe Penone. Untitled (No. 1). 1981. Cut-and-pasted painted paper, gouache, charcoal, and ink on paper. 9 x 9 1/8" (22.8 x 23 cm). Gift of the artist. 322.1983. © 2025 Giuseppe Penone / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Drawings & Prints

May 26, 2018–April 28, 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK www.ysp.ork.uk Yorkshire Sculpture Park will present an extensive new exhibition by Giuseppe Penone which aims to trace his evolving and deeply thoughtful investigation of sculpture’s intimate connections to the organic world. Works drawn from five decades of his career, from the late 1960s to the present day will be on display, including the thirteen-meter-high Vene di pietra tra i rami (2015), which has never been previously…

Italian artist Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) is making two simultaneous gifts of nearly 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and as many works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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