The central theme of Giuseppe
Penone's work is an exploration of the relationship between man and nature.
He was born in a rural community south of Turin, and his empathy with nature
stems from this experience. For Penone, Nature represents the great memory,
the ever-present model of the processes of change and growth that shape the
individual life. His art is often concerned with the revelation and realisation
in the form of sculpture of natural processes which may normally be hidden
or invisible. He has returned consistently to the tree as a model for his
sculpture; its stationary, vegetal form embraces and integrates the events
of its life. It is a metaphor for all systems of growth and change and for
the structure of history itself.
Giuseppe Penone's work can currently be seen in the Italian Pavilion at The Venice Biennale. Important solo exhibitions include: Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Milton Keynes Gallery, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Drawing Centre, New York (all 2004). Penone's work has
been included in many group shows and has played a central part in Tate Modern's recent survey of Arte Povera.
Please click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions and projects.
BIOGRAPHY
1947
Born: Garessio, Italy,
1970
Education: Diploma di Scultura, Accademia di Belle Arte, Turin, Italy
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 2004 2001-0 2000 1968-2000, 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 2006 2005 2004-05 2004 2004-03 2003 2001 2000 1997-2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC
PROJECTS 2000 1999 ©
2007 Frith Street Gallery
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Giuseppe Penone. Retrospectiva, CaixaForum, Barcelona
Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keyes
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keyes
Giuseppe Penone, The Imprint of Drawing, The Drawing Center, New York
"Giuseppe Penone," Tucci Rosso Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Respirare l'ombra" (sponsored by the City of Pulheim), Synagoge Stommeln,
Pulheim-Stommeln, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Giuseppe Penone: Dessins et Sculptures
" Rennes Espace, Paris, France
"Giuseppe Penone," Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Guiseppe Penone," Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
"Giuseppe Penone," The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Galleria Civica d1Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Guiseppe Penone," Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tilburg, The Netherlands
"Giuseppe Penone: The Veins of Stone," The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
Toyota Aichi, Japan
Carre d'Art, Musee d'art Contemporain, Nimes, France
"Pieges de Lumiere, Die Adern des Steins," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Guiseppe Penone," Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gallerie Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
Frith Street Gallery, London, England
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"L'image du toucher," Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens, France
Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi, Fossano, Italy
Chateau d'Annecy, Annecy, France
"Images de Pierre," Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
"Drawings and Sculpture," Frith Street Gallery, London, England
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
"I Have Been a Tree in the Hand," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Raccogliere gli sgnardi," Galerie Jule Kewenig, Freehen-Bachen, Cologne,
Germany
"Giussepe Penone Invita Johannes Cladders," Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea
Scavi Archeologi, Verona, Italy
"Le acque, I venti, le genti, gli alberi, I serpi sono vene di pietra," Refectoire
de l'Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus, France
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"L'Espace de la Main," Musee de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Eglise de Courmelois, Val-de-Vesle/Reims, France
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
'La Biennale di Venezia' 52nd International Art Exhibition, The Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale
'Collective One', Galerie Guy Bartschi
'Accrochage d'hiver', Galerie Alice Pauli
'Resonance,' Frith Street Gallery, London
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
'Jardin des plantes', FRAC Picardie/Galeries des Lycees, Peronne
'Some Trees', Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
'Basico', Tucci Russo, Torino, Italy
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
'Aligned', Frith Street Gallery, London
'The State of Drawing: Gesture and Act. Selected from the Tate Collection', Tate Liverpool
'Village Global' Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Quebec
'The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography', 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
'Skin Deep', MART Rovereto, Trento
'La Poetica Dell'Arte Povera', Magdeburger Museum, Magdeburg
'Jardin des Plantes', FRAC Picardie, Espace St. Jacques, Saint Quentin
'Dessins de la Collection Paul Maenz', FRAC Picardie, Amiens,
'A Sculpture Show', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
'Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971', Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
'Dialogue Ininterromptu', Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes
"Beaute in Fabula," Palais des Papes D'Avignon, Avignon, France
"Teatro Botanico, La natura nell arte del XX secolo," Museo Civico Castello
Ursino, Catania, Italy
"Le Temps Vite," Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
Palais des Expositions, Rome, Italy
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Kwangju Biennial 2000, Kwangju, Korea
'L'oeil Ecoute', carte blanche o Alain Kirili, Duc des Lombards, Paris
della scultura," Palazzo Stella, Bologna, Italy
"Enclosed and Enchanted," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
"Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute,"
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Konsthallen, Gsyteborg, Sweden; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
"Woods," Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
"Silent Friendship; 1960-901s Artists," Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Aichi, Japan
"A Summer Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Les Champs de la sculpture 2000, Champs Elysees, Paris, France
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Arte Citto, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Propagazione," Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Etre Nature," Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Gravures et Multiples," Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva,
Switzerland
"L'Empreinte," Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
"Giuseppe Penone, NICAF Tokio 197," Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo, Japan
"Arte Italiana Ultimi Quarant'Anni. Materiali Anomali," Galleria d'Arte Moderna
di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
"Imagined Communities" National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery), Oldham
Art Gallery, The Minories, Colchester, England
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England; Walsall Museum and Art Gallery,
Walsall, England
Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, England
"Collezionismo a Torino," Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin,
Italy
"From Figure to Object," Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London,
England
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Natures Contemporaines, Oeuvres de Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain Picardie,"
Centre d'animation culturelle de Compiegne et du Valois, Compiegne, France
Musee Abbaye Saint-Leger, Soissons, France
"Arte Povera 1965-1972," Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
"Collections Contemporaines," Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy "Feminin-Masculin: Le sexe de l'art,"
Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Wild at Heart" (works made for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust), Tramway,
Glasgow
"Prospekt/Retrospekt," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Italian Metamorphosis, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
"Inauguration du MAC," Galeries Contemporaines des Musees de Marseille, Marseilles,
France
"Zeitgenossiche Kunst aus Frankfurter Banken," Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
"Je vous ai tant aimes," CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux,
France
"L'Orizzonte, capolavari dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam
" Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Laura Carpenter Fine
Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Gravity & Grace, The changing condition of sculpture 1965-1975," Hayward
Gallery, London, England
"Un'avventura internazionale, Torino e le Arti 1950-1970,"
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Noir Dessin,"
Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Pour
la suite du monde," Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"Regard Multiple,
Galeries Contemporaines," Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France
"Natural Order," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
"Les collections
du Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire," Musee des Beaux-Arts
de Nantes, Nantes, France
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"This Land...," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"La sculpture contemporaine apres 1970," Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaire,
Capitou, France
"Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach," Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
"Architettura e urbanistica a Torino 1945-1990
" Lingotto, Turin, Italy "Intersezioni: Arte italiana negli anni Settanta-Ottanta,"
Expositions Palace, Budapest, Hungary
"Projet pour le Jardin Mons," Ville de Mons, Mons, Belgium
"Ein Projekt der Stadt Pulheim," Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany
Jardin Tuileries, Paris, France (commissioned by Departement des Achats et
Commandes Publiques, Ministere de la Culture)
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