Tag: Giuseppe Penone

  • Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

    With numerous works created with the twigs, leaves, roots, branches and majestic forms of trees, this retrospective captures the Italian artist’s arboreal obsession over five decades

  • Saint Francis of Assisi

    Saint Francis of Assisi, whose story began with a painting, has been depicted in more than 20,000 works of art. This exhibition offers an introduction to the visual biography of a saint who remains remarkably modern

  • Rachael Louise Bailey – interview: ‘It’s good to work with something that stirs you’

    From the synthetic detritus of the oyster industry washed up on the Kent coast and the organic softness of sheep’s fleece, Bailey conjures up fascinating work. She explains what motivates her and how she became obsessed by these two very…

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Giuseppe Penone: Fui, Sarò, Non Sono

    Although he may not initially seem to possess the radicalism of his arte povera contemporaries, the Italian artist’s work abounds with mellow fruitfulness and measured contemplation

  • The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone

    Delicate and poised, spidery and animated, these bronze casts of tree trunks, hollowed out and painted with a radiant gold-leaf interior, seem to prowl the gallery on their spindly branched limbs. This new site-specific work for the Bloomberg Commission, Spazio…