Word: larch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, however, a strong sculptor in the show: Penone, 35, a strikingly gifted poet of natural processes. His largest piece on view is carved from a huge, continuous square-sawed balk of larch, 39½ ft. high. At first it looks like a dead inverted tree, standing on a pedestal, its branches lopped to stubs. Then one becomes aware that the whole form of the tree has been patiently excavated, by carving, from the sawed block. Working backward into the wood from knots, Penone has raised the buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger...