Le foglie delle radici

Giuseppe Penone, born in 1947 in Garessio (Cuneo), is one of the most important and internationally recognized artists. Emerging at the end of the Sixties in the context of Arte Povera, it brought the relationship between man and nature back to the center of contemporary artistic research. His works investigate the growth of plant organisms as if they were shaped by time, the concept of imprint and the border between interior and exterior, body and nature. Through gestures of carving, excavation, fusion or duplication, Penone transforms matter, revealing its magical and fantastic foundations. Sculpture becomes a means for knowing and understanding the world: every act, from touch to breathing, becomes a sculptural experience, a dialogue between human and non-human. His art suggests perceiving life through the senses, touching, caressing and observing the transformations of matter, to grasp the common nature of the existing. In each work, the awareness of a world in continuous evolution is manifested, where sculpture is not only form, but sensitive experience and profound knowledge.