Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)
Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree) Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)
Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)
Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)
Giuseppe Penone: Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree)
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Giuseppe Penone

Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree), 2025

Fine art inkjet print and silkscreen print on paper

Carta Cotone Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308

46 x 31.5 cm

Hand signed and numbered by the artist Edition of 40 + 10 APs

£2,400 (inc VAT)

Thoughts in the Roots is presented at Serpentine South from 3rd April – 7th September. This exhibition brings together sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 to today. Using materials like wood, leaves, resin, bronze, and marble, the works embody the artist’s continued interest in the synergy between artistic and organic processes.

This limited edition is created specially to celebrate his Serpentine exhibition, depicting Albero folgorato (Thunderstruck Tree), a life-size bronze tree sculpture installed in Kensington Gardens for Thoughts in the Roots. Penone began casting trees in bronze in the late 1980s, often integrating his public sculptures within a matrix of real trees to create a dialogue with the wider environment. Albero folgorato is based on a hundred-year-old willow tree that grew in Grand-Hornu, Belgium. After being struck by lightning, its trunk split at the centre, laying bare the internal material of the wood. Penone lined its pulp with gold leaf, capturing the invisible force of nature that sculpted its splintered shape and complex internal structure. This is a fine art inkjet print, with silkscreen on paper. Each edition is hand signed and numbered by the artist.

All proceeds from this edition directly support Serpentine’s exhibitions, architecture, design, education, and digital programmes.

© 2025 Photo: readsreads.info

Giuseppe Penone

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Giusseppe Penone who was born in 1947 in Garessio draws deep inspiration from the forested landscapes of the region. A leading figure in the Arte Povera movement — a term coined in 1967 by art critic Germano Celant that translates as ‘poor art’— Penone works with simple, natural materials to reveal the beauty of the vegetal world. 

Giuseppe Penone lives and works in Turin, Italy and has been featured in solo exhibitions worldwide including at the Fondazione Ferrero, Alba (2024); at the Galleria Borghese, Rome (2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004, 2022); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2022); Villa Medici, Rome (2021); Palais d’léna – CESE, Paris (2019); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2018); Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte–Réparade (2017); Palazzo della Civiltà, Rome (2017); Louvre Abu Dhabi (2017); MART, Rovereto (2016); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2015); the Beirut Art Center (2014); the Musée de Grenoble (2014); the Château de Versailles (2013); Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2013); Madison Square Park, New York (2013) and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013). Giuseppe Penone has exhibited at Documenta V (1972), VII (1982), VIII (1987) and XIII (2012) and at the Venice Biennale in 1978, 1980, 1986, 1995 and 2007.

 


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