Adele Tutter on the art of Giuseppe Penone

GIUSEPPE PENONE Indistinti confini / Indistinct Boundaries

Giuseppe Penone_Avvolgere la terra_to enfold the earth

Detail: Giuseppe Penone, “Avvolgere la terra (To Enfold the Earth)” (2014). Aluminium, terracotta

“Then and now, Penone speaks to our intrinsic being of and belonging to nature, and the lack of any real boundary or difference between us and it. In this digital age, his work grounds and elevates us, opening our eyes in the present to the silent but vital remnants of an animistic past.”  ~ Adele Tutter

Zelený Les artist Adele Tutter is following the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Read her celebratory review of Penone’s current exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery as published in The Brooklyn Rail.

Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. is a practicing psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. She is the author of Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House (forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press) and coeditor of Grief and its Transcendence: Creativity, Memory, and Identity (Routledge). She is currently working on a second monograph, Mourning and Metamorphosis: Poussin’s Ovidian Vision.