31 oktober 2013

Giuseppe Penone



"Giuseppe Penone and I are peering into a sculpture in his spacious studio close to the Dora, a river in Turin. It is an early experiment for the Bloomberg commission, filled with gold and resin. "It is like a river of a blood," he says.
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Spread over a number of floors in an old industrial building, Penone's studio has room for the display of many of his sculptures. Walking in to the "dirty area" – full of sawdust and power tools – I am confronted with works that are familiar, some versions of which have been around since the 1960s.

Maurizio, Penone's sole assistant, is working on one of the series in which a large tree is carved into to expose the inner "original" tree, the base left to show that it is real. The tree epitomises what is unique about Penone's work: in some ways his themes are unashamedly old fashioned, but the tension of the man-made and the natural that he introduces by his use of materials means it feels completely contemporary. "I hope that my work's universality will give it a longer shelf life than many contemporary works. Work that was done with irony has a life that is very short."

Going upstairs to a large balcony with work carefully arranged is like moving through a mini retrospective. Penone says that he needs to spend time with his work: "Sometimes the work tells me nothing for a long time, and then one day it tells me something." (bron: The Independent)


Working in 2000-03 on "Cedro di Versailles". (bron: designboom)

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