The Pompidou-Metz Center and the Saarbrücken Museum had the common idea of inviting Giuseppe Penone to work in Metz, under the Chinese hat of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, then in the federal capital of the Land of Saarland. Cross-border links dear to the Center Pompidou-Metz since its collaboration with the Saarlandmuseum in 2016: the exhibition “Entre deux horizons” traces the exchanges and parallels between the German and French avant-garde, from Renoir to Max Liebermann, from André Derain to Kirchner, from Max Ernst to Aurélie Nemours and Hans Hartung. Meeting with the great Italian artist, handsome 72-year-old man, reserved and elegant, in his vast workshop in Turin, then in the enclosed gardens of the Royal Palace of Venaria which he populated with his works, bronze trees, marble books , basin where the bubbles draw an imprint. Time suspended, just before the coronavirus crisis that petrified northern Italy.
LE FIGARO .- Why did you make two different sculptures
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