Giuseppe Penone (born the April 3rd 1947 with Garessio, Province of Cuneo, Piedmont, in Italy -) is a contemporary artist Italy N, considered as a major artist of the Arte Povera, movement of Avant-garde Italy N, born in the the Sixties. He works the Sculpture, the Dessin, the installations, and more particularly the intervention in the natural landscape (Land art).
Biography
Giuseppe Penone is the last arrived within the Arte Povera where it carries out a singular trajectory. Its work of sculptor is characterized by his anchoring within the ground from its village (Garessio), rich place of water and caves, the traces of a prehistory always present at the horizon of the artist. Wire of farmers, the rate/rhythm of the seasons and the agricultural work, the odors, the forms and the colors of the harvests piled up in the family barns also strongly marked its sensitivity. It appeared on the international artistic scene as of 1968, while working to connect the vegetable world and the body. One has just devoted broad and important retrospective to him to the Center Georges-Pompidou in 2004. He lives and works in Italy. He teaches with the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts of Paris.
Work
Like any artist of Arte Povera, Giuseppe Penone shows a not very common sensitivity with regard to the body, and more particularly the body in relation to nature, the ground.Its work is characterized by an interrogation on the man and nature, on time, the being, it to become, the infinite one, the movement, and by the marked beauty of its forms and its materials.
Convinced that the landscape is charged with signs registered in the memory of the vegetable matters, organic and mineral, it tends in its works to reveal a human presence, inside these sculptures which point out a virginity, a purity of nature.
It wants to integrate this sensitivity into it, this human culture as if it did nothing but discover it, to reveal it, and it tries to cause it, extract it, by creating prints closely binding humanity and purity of nature. (by the mouldings, sculptures.) Thus, the gesture of the artist highlights in spaces without culture (human), of the deep signs of the presence, even of the destiny of the man. Its work shows as the metamorphosis as the time produced on the matter.
It stresses as much on the creative process that on work, and is identified with the river, with the breath, with what is essentially movement and life. Revealing the ceaseless movement in the middle of the natural cycle which, with time, deteriorates the beings and the things, Penone seems to endorse celebrates it proverb héraclitien*: panta rei , very runs out, nothing does not remain tel.
Major works
- 1999 "The Tree with voyelles" , bronze moulding of a 14 meters length oak (government order recently installed with the Jardin of Tileries.
- 1986: " Path of Charme" , bronzes and charms, 180 X 5 X 60 cm
- 1977: " patates" , with which it will work the concept of print: It takes a print of its body, it makes a sculpture and the place in the ground, where potatoes push. The potatos are obstructed by the fragment of its body. The potato taking the shape of the ear, the goal being to create a bond with the plant. Thereafter it makes a bronze of this mixture: potato - ear.
- 1978: " Soffio 6" (Breath 6), terra cotta, 158 X 75 X 79 cm. Penone built with clay not cooked a moulding of its body, then it puts ground. It moulds a ballot box, left amphora. One with the illusion that these ballot boxes were born from the breath, it there with the left print. On the ballot box, the print of the pants of Penone is left, as that of its mouth as if it had given a human breath which passes from mouth to mouth to the vase. A kind of metamorphosis takes place: reciprocal transformation of the body and the object into body.
- 1971: " To unroll its skin/pierre" , engraved stone
- 1970: " Rovesciare I propri occhi" (To turn over its own eyes), portrait-work of the artist. He voluntarily plugs himself. He presents a photograph of him with gleaming contact lenses.
See too
External bonds
- ''Giovanni Lanfranco : painter of the baroque ''
- '' Giuseppe Penone, empathic and paradoxical vision of a world deciphered to the Retrospective close friend ''
- in the Georges-Pompidou Center in 2004
- a bio-bibliography of Giuseppe Penone - extracts of press
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