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“Idee di pietra—Olmo” / Ideas of Stone [Elm, 2008] | – by Giuseppe Penone

Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Location: Chicago’s Museum Campus

Installed: September, 2015.

Description: Completed 2008 / Bronze and stone.

Presented by EXPO Chicago [2015], in partnership with the Chicago Park District [CPD] and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events [DCASE].

Since the year 2014, EXPO Chicago’s IN/SITU installaton includes installations outside of Navy Pier.

2015 EXPO Chicago features three installations in the Museum Campus:
Daniel Buren’s “Attrape-soleil” [2013] / Bortolami Gallery;
Ewerdt Hilgemann’s, “Habakuk” [Homage to Max Ernst], 2014 / Borzo Galerie / The Mayor Gallery;
Giuseppe Penone’s, “Idee di pietra—Olmo” / Ideas of Stone [Elm, 2008] | Marian Goodman Gallery.

 

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EXPO website has a description of this piece.. click here..
Italian artist Giuseppe Penone’s monumental, thirty-foot-tall bronze tree features the artist’s signature manipulation of natural form. The tree as living sculpture is a recurring theme for Penone. Idee di pietra—Olmo / Ideas of Stone–Elm takes this form and incorporates a precariously-placed boulder—a remnant evidence of the sculptures’ manmade composition to demonstrate the effects of human interaction on the natural world. As an original member of the Arte Povera movement, Penone belongs to a tradition of artists who sought to dissolve divisions between art and life by using commonplace materials. This piece expands on that concept, employing natural materials and forms in an exploration of the contrasting and fundamental relationships between man and nature.

 

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Published by Jyoti Srivastava
Date: Oct 11, 2015.
Image copyright © Jyoti Srivastava

 

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