While in London this new year we went to two really interesting exhibitions.
The first at The Whitechapel Gallery, is called 'Urban Nature': Four seasons of events on art,nature and the city inspired by the Bloomsberg Commission: Guiseppe Penone, Jan-March 2013.
'Italian artist, Giuseppe Penone presents Spazio de Luce, a twelve metre bronze cast of a tree with a radiant gold-leaf interior specially conceived for the Whitechapel Gallery.Conceived around the structure of a tree-from roots to base, trunk to branch, it invites artists, activists, architects,philosopher and scientists to engage in four seasons of discussions and actions.'
It is an intriguing and magical piece. It made me feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland peering down the golden hollow interior of this man-made tree, spiralling to its roots and to the infinity of the imagination.
Check the exhibition and programme out at www.whitechapelgallery.org
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