2001

Untitled (Spoglia d'oro su spine d'acacia [labbra])

Italian, born 1947

Penone grew up in an agricultural region in the Italian Piedmont, and his early familiarity with mountains and forests has continued to affect his art. Part of a movement that since the late 1960s has sought to blur the distinctions between natural and man-made phenomena, he often includes organic elements in his works, such as tree trunks, branches, and leaves. Here he draws the thorns of the acacia tree.