Cees Nooteboom: Bomen waarin stenen bloeien. De verzonnen wereld van Giuseppe Penone
Cees Nooteboom
Koppernik, 2023
€27,50
Giuseppe Penone is a sculptor and land artist – and one of the strangest artists of our time. But what exactly does he do? And what do his works mean for us?
Cees Nooteboom approaches this dazzling world of natural materials, vegetal gestures and geological arrangements with scanning caution. With Penone’s work in mind, he wanders through his own Menorcan garden, examining the imprint of the rocks and the trees and the water, the persistent idiosyncrasy of nature and the transience of the years. An astonishing and enchanting dialogue arises between art and writing.
What does nature know about us that we don’t know ourselves? How do the stones communicate? Do trees have a language? And what does it mean to think with your hands? To read how Cees Nooteboom writes about Giuseppe Penone is to embark on the existential, vulnerable adventure of observation. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789083323947
