Curator and art critic Germano Celant created the term #artepovera in 1967 to highlight a tendency toward a use of reduced material or idea to its archetype. How does Penone fit into that notion? He seems to have had a singular place in the Italian and global Western art canon of the time, using organic growth as an art process that the artist mirrors, plays and aligns with. Have we been forcing a dialogue between his work and Celant’s concept? What other relations with memory and matter has he expanded through his work? Was he a pioneer of eco-art? A late romantic? All of the above?
Artist Diogo Pimentão is my co-host for the first time. As ever, I’ll introduce the artist and he’ll take us through this small retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Curated by Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, with Alexa Chow, Assistant Exhibitions Curator.
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00:00 Introduction to the podcast, the theme and guest co-host
03:14 The Generosity of Artistic Donations
03:16 Introducing Giuseppe Penone and Germano Celant
12:44 Arte Povera: From a Local Movement to an International Content
14:59 Penone: From University Drop-Out to Experimental Environment Artist
17:56 Penone's Organic Materials Explored Through Actions Outdoors, Photography and Performance
23:44 The Humanity of the Tree, the Tree-ness of Humans
28:34 Shifting the Senses: the Eye as Mirror
32:37 The Liminal Space of Perception
35:38 The Skin as Boundary
37:38 The Fluidity of Materials and Experiences
40:04 Memory and Knowledge in Artistic Expression
46:52 Introduction to the Exhibition
49:44 The Ideas of Stone Installation
52:57 First Room of the Exhibition: a Time Portal
55:28 An Invitation to Close Your Eyes
56:46 People and Years: Reading and Writing the Rings of a Tree
01:00:30 "The Mysterious Mechanism that Provokes in us Astonishment"
01:06:41 The Growth of a Sculpture
01:07:14 The Lungs of the Exhibition
01:07:30 Breathing from the Inside: the Body Reversed
01:11:01 The Book Tree
01:14:51 Vegetal Self-Portrait: an Ecological Vanitas
01:17:21 Is a Classical, Philosophical Approach to the Biosphere Enough?
01:22:11 The Power of Breathing in Art
01:27:30 Break and Call to Action