Richard Long and Giuseppe Penone are showing at Haunch of Venison gallery in London, a show worth visiting. Both artists explore the relationship between art and nature. Penone is considered one of the younger artists of the Arte Povera movement. His show consists of older and recent works in wood and bronze as well as documentation relating to a series of ground-breaking projects made in 1968 and an installation of his ‘Skin of Graphite’ drawings.
Richard Long is considered a pioneer of Land and Conceptual art. His work explores relationships between time, distance, geography, measurement and movement. He either works in nature by leaving traces in the landscape or brings in the gallery materials found in nature like stones, logs and mud. The exhibition includes sculptures, wall texts and a large-scale mud wall work. The mud walls are beautifully tactile works in which he smears mud or china clay straight onto the gallery walls and for this show for the first time he has used the color blue.
