Throughout his fifty-year career, Giuseppe Penone has employed a wide range of materials and forms in an exploration of the fundamental language of sculpture. A protagonist of Arte Povera, Penone explores respiration, growth, and aging—among other involuntary processes—to create an expansive body of work including sculpture, performance, works on paper, and photography.
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About Giuseppe Penone
Internationally acclaimed artist Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) emerged in the late 1960s as a protagonist of Arte Povera, a seminal movement in post-war European art. Since initiating his practice in the forests of his native village Garessio in 1968, Penone has interrogated the subtle dynamics between mankind and the natural world. His expansive multidisciplinary oeuvre—encompassing sculpture, actions, paintings, photography, and works on paper—investigates respiration, growth, and evolution. These involuntary natural processes establish an analogy between the human body and the arboreal form, positioning both as sculptures, subject to the same imperatives.
Penone’s career is distinguished by major solo exhibitions at prestigious international institutions, including: Centre Pompidou, Château de Versailles, Nasher Sculpture Center, Uffizi Galleries, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Serpentine Galleries. Institutional collections include Tate, London; MoMA, New York; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Louvre Abu Dhabi; Qatar Museums, Doha; and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.