How would it feel to be a tree? What is the skin and why do we have it? Giuseppe Penone since his early artistic research perceives every single natural element like air, water, rocks, trees, hairs, hats, walls, streets throught oneself’s positive dimension, the skin, which is the negative dimension of the world. The skin is the limit, the bound, the wrapping, division and contact. Leaves’ skin, thorns’ skin, bark’s skin. Humans’ life goes on with constant osmosis with the srrounding reality. The artistic, physical and phylosophical research of an artist like Giuseppe Penone goes much further Biology and Medicine books, with the extent of giving significant answers(?) to easy questions, originated from pure experience.
The Museum of Modern Art in Bologna hosts a collection of pieces from the most important works of the artist, several inedit creations and more than hundred drawings realized between 1967 and 2004.
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