Solo exhibition
Giuseppe Penone à La Tourette
September 6 – December 24, 2022
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
Until 24 December 2022, the La Tourette convent is hosting a new series of creations by Giuseppe Penone. Invited to stay there by the Dominican friars, the artist meditated on and retraced the building designed by Le Corbusier as if it were a big tree, the crypt its roots, the pillars its trunks, the stone incrustations of the elevations its leaves. Using Le Corbusier's 63 shades of architectural polychromy, Penone created a sequence of frottages of the different parts of the structure, which also resulted in a limited-edition book: Le Bois Sacré du Couvent de la Tourette. The exhibition, curated by Father Marc Chauveau, is an opportunity to see other well-known works by Penone that, in dialogue with the spaces of the convent, are enriched with new and intense meanings.

Giuseppe Penone creating Le Bois Sacré – Cimes/Clocher (The Sacred Forest—Treetops and Bell Tower) at Couvent de La Tourette, 2022