Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman Gallery NY March 18 - April 25, 2015.
Opening Reception will be 6-8pm on Wednesday, March 18.
For more information on the exhibition and the range of work that will be on display, please visit the gallery’s website.
Border Crossings magazine has posted the thoughtful interview conducted with Penone for Issue 128, the cover of which also displays Penone’s work. From Robert Enright’s introduction:
“Penone’s own origins made it clear that nature mattered. His earliest works, realized when he was only 21 years old, were interventions in nature that were simple in execution but complex in implication. In 1969 he wrote that he wished “the relationship between myself and things to be equal.” In conjoining his hand with a tree, and in measuring the imprint of his body and breath in nature, he was already working towards that equality of self and world. More than two decades later he would recognize the importance of those early enactments in nature: “In the month of May 1969, I entered the forest of wood and began walking at a slow tempo, reflective and surprised, attentive to every small form enclosed within the fluid wood. It was then that this cathedral rose up from the silent world of matter, to enter into the world of sculpture and the poetic use of reality.” For the last 45 years the poetic shaping of reality through inhabiting a world of sculpture is the combination that has characterized his astonishing achievement.”
Read the full interview with Penone here.
