SCULPTER - EDITION ESTABLISHED BY GILBERTE TSAI

In 2019, Gilberte Tsaï invited the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone to give a conference for children on his artistic practice of sculpture. She explains her first encounter with her work at the bend in a path: “ About twenty years ago, I was walking in the park of the Domaine de Kerguehennec, in Brittany, and at the bend in a path, I saw a sculpture which moved me a lot. A bronze human being was moving forward, we could see the traces of his footsteps on the ground, and his body was crossed by a small, frail tree. This work, appearing as a symbol of the relationship between humans and nature, had a huge impact on me; as it happens Sometimes, we stop in front of a work, we feel very moved, and it goes accompany you throughout your life. This is the first work I saw of Giuseppe Penone, it was called A Path of Charm." In a short text and precise, Giuseppe Penone explains his artistic approach and more specifically the links it maintains with the elements which surround it such as that the air, the potatoes, the trees, the squashes, the leaves: "A sculpture work is not a work of speech, it is a work of matter, [...]. My work, deep down, is a work of wonder, by relation to reality, relation to matter." By focusing on the materiality of sculpture in his work, it allows us to follow his hands and to enter – literally – into bronze, wood and the breath of the wind. Both poetic and practical, these pages take us on the paths of one of the most striking creators of his time.