2011
Haunch of Venison, London
Softcover + dust jacket
88 pages
260 × 212 mm
Giuseppe Penone was born in Garessio, Italy in 1947. Long related to developments in sculpture in the 60s and 70s, and to Arte Povera, Penone’s work retains its own distinctive character incorporating binary meanings related to the natural world and the notion of living sculpture. Penone’s interest in the space between the hand and the touched surface that becomes sculpture and drawing, between imprint and sight, gesture and action, has been sustained throughout his body of work.
[Marian Goodman Gallery]
Giuseppe Penone's major London exhibition brought together sculpture, photography and drawings exploring the artist's preoccupation with natural forms, materials and our own relationships with nature and time.
The dust jacket draws inspiration from Penone's sculpture Proiezione, extrapolating the artist's fingerprint to create a wrap-around embossed pattern that takes on the dual appearance of fingerprint/woodgrain – a recurring motif for Penone. The jacket is produced using rough kraft paper while the book cover itself uses Moonbeam paper hot-stamped with the artist's name, the stamped type revealing the fibres of the paper when held to the light.
Texts by Ben Tufnell and Adachiara Zevi.
