Giuseppe Penone

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Long related to Arte Povera, Penone’s work retains its own distinctive character incorporating binary meanings related to the natural world and the notion of living sculpture.

Giuseppe Penone was born in Garessio, Italy in 1947. Long related to developments in sculpture in the 60s and 70s, and to Arte Povera, Penone’s work retains its own distinctive character incorporating binary meanings related to the natural world and the notion of living sculpture.  Penone’s interest in the space between the hand and the touched surface that becomes sculpture and drawing, between imprint and sight, gesture and action, has been sustained throughout his body of work.  

Giuseppe Penone has had recent solo exhibitions at the Galleria Borghese, Rome (2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2022); Villa Medici, Rome (2021); Palais d'léna - CESE, Paris, France (2019); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (2018); Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade (2017); Palazzo della Civilità, Rome (2017); Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE (2017); MART, Rovereto (2016); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2016); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2015);  the Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2014); the Musée de Grenoble, France (2014); the Château de Versailles, France (2013); Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2013); Madison Square Park, New York (2013) and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013).

In 2023 Penone became a Foreign Associate Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his many awards he recently received the McKim Medal (2017) and the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award for Sculpture in 2014. Giuseppe Penone has exhibited at Documenta V (1972), VII (1982), VIII (1987) and XIII (2012) and at the Venice Biennale in 2007, 1995, 1986, 1980, and 1978.

Earlier this year The Logic of the Vegetal – Metamorphosis was presented at Desert X AlUla 2024 located in northwest Saudi Arabia. In May 2024, Penone will unveil a new site-specific sculpture commissioned by the Princess Estelle Cultural Foundation for its sculpture park on Royal Djurgåden in celebration of its five-year anniversary.

Long related to Arte Povera, Penone’s work retains its own distinctive character incorporating binary meanings related to the natural world and the notion of living sculpture.

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Accordion book stretched open. The far left is a print of a face yawning, the middle portrays to lines of wood against hide, and the far right ends with a circular line drawing.

Giuseppe Penone

Matrice di linfa
Along with the exhibition of the monumental sculpture 'Matrice di Linfa' at the Palais d'Iéna in Paris in October 2019, Giuseppe Penone created an artist's edition which visually incorporates the essence of this masterpiece. The entire work, composed of 11 sections of color images, unfolds over the leporello format. The first and final sections of the leporello are charcoal pigment prints on Japanese paper, both inspired by the sculptures which...
Brown fabric catalogue cover, titled From Arte Povera Giulio Paolini Giuseppe Penone Luciano Fabro

From Arte Povera

Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Luciano Fabro
This catalogue is a record of three consecutive solo exhibitions held at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York from January through June 2015 of work by Arte Povera artists Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, and Luciano Fabro. With essays by Dieter Schwarz and Maddalena Disch 'Arte Povera does not represent a unified group of artists but rather an extended group who joined together briefly for several exhibitions, and then followed their own...

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