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Frith Street Gallery: GIUSEPPE PENONE - 12 Sept 2008 to 30 Oct 2008 Current Exhibition |
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GIUSEPPE PENONE
Installation View Frith Street Gallery |
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GIUSEPPE PENONE 12 September - 30 October 2008 Frith Street Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Giuseppe Penone. One of the most celebrated artists of his generation, Penone is perhaps the leading member of the Arte Povera movement which started in Italy in the late 1960s. Penone's practice examines the materiality of the world through sculpture, continuously reflecting the similarities between nature and human beings - revealing the secret universe of hidden images within seemingly inert materials. Scultura di linfa, 2006 relates directly to the artist's distinctive Albero series of sculptures. In these works wooden beams were pared down until the form of the tree from which they were cut emerged. In the present sculpture the tree contained in the beam is excavated from the wood leaving behind its negative impression which is filled with scent-diffusing tree resin. The process of creation by subtraction of matter is also present in two marble sculptures Pelle di marmo 2001 and Pelle di marmo su spine d'acacia - Lucrezia 2003. Here the artist uses the veins within blocks of Carrara marble revealing the deep natural and cultural affinities between flesh and marble, the veins of the body and those of material - sculpture ancient and contemporary. The idea of encasement which accompanies the creation of form through the removal of matter is explored further in Lo spazio della scultura, corteccia, 2004. In this case bronze and leather are conjoined with the bark of a two hundred year old Cedar, both concealing and mimicking the tree's natural structure. *** Giuseppe Penone was born in Garessio, Italy in 1947. Recent Solo Exhibitions: Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, Acad�mie de France � Rome-Villa Medici, Rome (2008). La Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillion, Venice, (2007) Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (2006). Recent Croup exhibitions: Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia (2008) "Arte Povera", Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein (2007) "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972", 2001 Tate Modern, London and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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