3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Giuseppe Penone’s verdant landscapes; Boyle Family’s earthworks; and Clare Grill’s paintings in “There’s the Air.”
Giuseppe Penone’s “Leaves of Grass” (2013) at Marian Goodman Gallery. The foliage scenes are painted entirely with the artist’s fingertips.Credit.Giuseppe Penone and Marian Goodman Gallery
By Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener and Will Heinrich
April 7, 2021
Through April 17. Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, Manhattan; (212) 977-7160, mariangoodman.com.
Of all the Italian Arte Povera (impoverished art) artists, Giuseppe Penone, 74, may have produced the richest, most accessible and most consistently moving body of work. The thought occurs in his enthralling show of pieces from the mid-2010s at Marian Goodman Gallery. The credit of course is not all his. From the start, Penone’s work has been an elaborate collaboration with nature especially trees and their various processes of incremental grow