Giuseppe Penone (Italian, 1947
) Arthur Rimbaud - Poésies - 1995 cristal and embroidered canvas with vegetal rubbing 29,5 x 19 x 20 cm Signature and date underneath Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by the artist dated 21.04.2004. During the 90s Giuseppe Penone started working with silicon to create crystallized molds of tree trunks which were cut in two. The original idea was to show the similarity between books and wood. The texture of stacked papers resemble the texture of wood, and a text is the crystallization of a thought or an idea. The inclusion of actual books in between the two pieces of crystallized wood turned out to be unsatisfying. Eventually, Penone would replace the book by a piece of cloth, folded in such a way that the folds on the edge reminded us of the spine of a book. On this edge, the title of a book, preferably poetry volumes, would be embroidered in white thread on the white cloth. Provenance Galerie Artiscope, Brussels