Title
Matrice: una mostra di Giuseppe PenonePosted In
ExhibitionDuration
27 January 2017 to 16 July 2017Venue
Palazzo della Civiltà ItalianaOpening Hours
Daily 10:00 - 20:00Location
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Title | Matrice: una mostra di Giuseppe Penone | Posted In | Exhibition | Duration | 27 January 2017 to 16 July 2017 |
Venue | Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana | Opening Hours | Daily 10:00 - 20:00 | Location |
Quadrato della Concordia, 3 Rome
Italy |
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For the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana exhibition, New Museum’s artistic director Massimiliano Gioni has been recruited to curate a selection of both new and older works by Penone that highlight the artist’s fascination with natural forms as well as his sculptural sensibility. Apart from the Foglie di Petra series, which is being shown in Italy for the first time, ‘Matrice’ features other notable works from the sculptor, such as the homonymous 30-meter-long sculpture Matrice (2015); an example from a series of images made of acacia thorns on canvas (Spine d’acacia - Contatto, 2006); and the ongoing series of carved tree trunks Ripetere il bosco (1969-2016), the latter being one of the artist’s most renowned works. A 20-meter-high bronze fir tree (Abete, 2013) is also being presented for the first time, and has been installed outside the Palazzo, marking a contrast between the natural world evoked through Penone’s works and the neat, rationalised neoclassicism of the building hosting them.
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