‘Breath is a Sculpture’ Exhibition by Giuseppe Penone

Beirut Art Center is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The title of the show, Breath is a Sculpture, stresses that breath is the matrix for an artistic practice, an articulation between form, void, and life. Penone has measured, depicted, and embodied breath, an index of the body, in sculpture, sound, and representation. The works on display acknowledge the body as a mean and as a measuring instrument. Exploring breath, in Italian soffio, the most elemental proof to life’s continuity, has occupied the artist since the seventies.

The exhibition at Beirut Art Center will present drawings, sculptures, photographs, installations, as well as their documentation that renders the artist’s process visible, and informs the production of newer versions of emblematic works realized in different contexts.

A conversation between Giuseppe Penone and Frederic Paul will take place during the opening.