“The oak tree and me,” said Carl Sagan, “we’re made of the same stuff.” Sagan’s work was focused on the cosmos, but he understood that here on earth, the lives of animals and plants are as intertwined as strands in the double helix. The artist Giuseppe Penone expresses something similar through his lifelong affinity with trees. “The bifurcations of the trees,” he has said, “appear so intimately human to us.” Working in bronze, stone, and marble, Penone’s trees are often monumental, and certainly less vulnerable to moth and fire. This exhibition of drawings and sculptures—nearly 200 objects in all—focuses on the relationship between these two mediums in Penone’s practice. —Laura Jacobs
The Arts Intel Report
River of Forms
Giuseppe Penone, Untitled, 1982.
When
Sept 22, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023
Where
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19130, United States
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Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Museum
Nearby
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American Museum of Natural History