Giuseppe Penone

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Giuseppe Penone is an Italian artist, concerned with establishing a contact between man and nature. Penone started working professionally in 1968 in the Garessio forest near where he was born. Critics group his art work with Land Art, and Process Art. His most famous work is the 1970 photograph "To Reverse One's Eyes", which questioned the role of the artist and the spectator as well as the relationship between man and his environment. Germano Celant was the art critic that coined the term "Arte Povera", and Penone is grouped with this movement. Penone is one of the only non-British artists to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Preceded by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

Schock Prize in Visual Arts 2001

Succeeded by Susan Rothenberg