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Giuseppe Penone, Struttura del tempo (Structure of time), 1992
Giuseppe Penone, Struttura del tempo (Structure of time), 1992

Giuseppe Penone

Struttura del tempo (Structure of time), 1992
terracotta and wood
69.9 x 353 x 73.7 cm
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Giuseppe Penone’s sculpture is inspired by the search for an equal relationship between man and material. Intertwining man, nature and culture this work alludes to a deep time where everything...
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Giuseppe Penone’s sculpture is inspired by the search for an equal relationship between man and material. Intertwining man, nature and culture this work alludes to a deep time where everything - be it wood or a human body - is fluid and things coexist in a reciprocal action.
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Provenance

- Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
- ⁠Private collection, Paris, acquired in 1992
- Christie’s London, 15/02/2012 (lot 24) “A Way of Thinking, Works from An Important Private Collection”
- ⁠Private collection, London

Exhibitions

- Giuseppe Penone, Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand–Dessert, Paris, 5 September - 10 October, 1992

- Prehistory, a modern enigma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 8 May - 16 September, 2019

Literature

- Giuseppe Penone: La Structure du Temps, Château d'Annecy, 1993 (illustrated in colour, pp. 73, 75)

- Giuseppe Penone: Die Adern des Steins, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 1997 (illustrated, pp. 247-248, 250)

- Giuseppe Penone, Respirer l’Ombre, École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts, Paris, 2004 (illustrated, p. 165)

- Giuseppe Penone, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004 (illustrated, pp. 208, 209)

- Giuseppe Penone: Sculture di Linfa, 52a Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte, Italian Pavilion, Venice, 2007 (illustrated, pp. 122-123) 

- Giuseppe Penone, Mercatorfonds, Brussels, 2012 (illustrated, pp. 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329) 

- Prehistory, a modern enigma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, pp.246-247)

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