videos of public reaction and views of Y Lle Celf 2012
http://thespace.org/items/e00010ss?t=jx6q
http://thespace.org/items/e00010rl?t=jx57
http://thespace.org/items/e00010ss?t=jx6q
http://thespace.org/items/e00010rl?t=jx57
Saturday 22 September 2012
giuseppe penone
guiseppe penone at the whitechapel gallery.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-giuseppe-penone-spazio-di-luce
I went to the talk by Guiseppe Penone, a really intimate discussion about his commission for the gallery, and its context and relationship to his life's work. As well as his awe-inspiring tree, there is a beautiful piece, 'being a river' situated in the corner of the gallery.
Both peices, he said, started off with the ideas that the tree and stone were perfect sculptures. 'Being a river' consists of two identical looking boulders positioned side by side. One is an original, collected from the river bed with its traces of chattering down through the elements. Its dopelganger is of the same material collected by Penone from the rockface that the original naturally fell from. He then shapes the stone to be an exact replica of the one he found. He said that the interesting thing for him was that he was using similar techniques and materials to shape the 'made' stone - sand, water as that which transformed the original boulder into the shape that it became. Hence the title, 'being a river'.
This idea, of man as a geological force comparable to nature has always fascinated me. It was really interesting and heartwarming to hear an artist of such stature and knowledge to talk about such deep-rooted feelings.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-giuseppe-penone-spazio-di-luce
I went to the talk by Guiseppe Penone, a really intimate discussion about his commission for the gallery, and its context and relationship to his life's work. As well as his awe-inspiring tree, there is a beautiful piece, 'being a river' situated in the corner of the gallery.
Both peices, he said, started off with the ideas that the tree and stone were perfect sculptures. 'Being a river' consists of two identical looking boulders positioned side by side. One is an original, collected from the river bed with its traces of chattering down through the elements. Its dopelganger is of the same material collected by Penone from the rockface that the original naturally fell from. He then shapes the stone to be an exact replica of the one he found. He said that the interesting thing for him was that he was using similar techniques and materials to shape the 'made' stone - sand, water as that which transformed the original boulder into the shape that it became. Hence the title, 'being a river'.
This idea, of man as a geological force comparable to nature has always fascinated me. It was really interesting and heartwarming to hear an artist of such stature and knowledge to talk about such deep-rooted feelings.
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