"What I saw when I began was that the distinction between man and nature is false. Man is part of nature; it is our desire to conserve distinctions that has kept us separate."
Selected Works
Bio
Giuseppe Penone is a sculptor, installation artist, and draughtsman celebrated for his profound exploration of the relationship between man and nature. A key figure of the Arte Povera movement, he works across clay, stone, metal, and wood, drawing on the poetic and physical qualities of natural materials to unify artistic process with natural process. His landmark Alberi ("Trees") series, begun in 1969, remains one of the most sustained investigations into organic form in contemporary art, while later works extend this inquiry into the correspondences between the human body and the natural world.
Giuseppe's work is the subject of major international exhibitions and is held in leading public and private collections worldwide.