Artist Books
Giuseppe Penone, Svolgere la propria pelle. Edited by F. Mello. Turin: Sperone editore, 1970
Giuseppe Penone, Rovesciare gli occhi. Introduction by J.C. Ammann. Turin: Einaudi, 1977
Giuseppe Penone, The Eroded Steps / Il vuoto dei passi. Texts by G. Penone, P. Piguet. Brighton-Halifax: Aegis Publishing-Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 1989
Giuseppe Penone, La sua corteccia analizzata, palpata, seguita, tastata, punto per punto fino all'altezza di novecentosettanta centimetri, in L'image du toucher. Frac Picardie: Amiens, 1994
Giuseppe Penone, Lecture musicale de la structure des arbres. Louviers: Musée municipal,1999
Giuseppe Penone, Passi sulle cime dei gelsi. Santa Monica: Jacob Samuel, 2000
Giuseppe Penone, Alfabeto 70. Paris: Bookstorming, 2003
Giuseppe Penone, Géométrie dans les mains. Paris: Bernard Chauveau-Le Néant, 2010
Giuseppe Penone, Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Text by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Paris: Editions du Solstice, 2010
Giuseppe Penone, 16 pagine. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2011
Giuseppe Penone, Alfabeto. Edited by F. Mello. Turin: Arti Grafiche Parini, 2011
Giuseppe Penone, Transcription musicale de la structure des arbres. Ardèche 2011. Paris: Bernard Chauveau - Le Néant, 2012
Giuseppe Penone, Le Bois Sacré du Couvent de La Tourette. Paris: Bernard Chauveau-Galerie 8+4, 2022
Giuseppe Penone, Pensieri e linfa. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2024
Artist Writings
Giuseppe Penone, Respirar la sombra, ed. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 1999
Giuseppe Penone, Die Augen umkehren. Schriften 1968–2004, ed. Museum Kurhaus, Kleve-Tropen Verlag, Berlin 2006
Giuseppe Penone, Scritti 1968–2008, curated by G. Maraniello and J. Watkins, ed. MAMbo, Bologna-IKON, Birmingham 2009
Giuseppe Penone, Respirer l'ombre, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, Paris 2021
Giuseppe Penone, Scritti, ed. Electa, Milano 2022
Catalogues
Giuseppe Penone. Bäume Augen Haare Wände Tongefäss, curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann and Giuseppe Penone, Kunstmuseum, Luzern 22 May–26 June 1977, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Ugo Cagnotto, ed. Kunstmuseum, Luzern 1977
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Hans Albert Peters and Ingo Bartsch, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 28 January–26 February 1978, texts by Hans Albert Peters, Ingo Bartsch, Renato Barilli, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1978
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Paul Maenz and Gerd de Vries, Museum Folkwang, Essen 1 September–1 October 1978, texts by Zdenek Felix, Germano Celant, ed. Museum Folkwang, Essen 1978
Giuseppe Penone, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 14 February–30 March 1980, texts by Germano Celant, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1980
Giuseppe Penone, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 23 June–15 August 1982, texts by John Cladders, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Walther König, Köln 1982
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Jessica Bradley, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 7 October–4 December 1983, texts by Joseph Martin, Jessica Bradley, ed. Musées Nationaux du Canada, Ottawa 1983
Giuseppe Penone, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 4 July–23 September 1984, texts by Suzanne Pagès, Jessica Bradley, Giuseppe Penone, Giorgio Cerruti, ed. ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1984
Incredulo senza scusa di ordini regole misure e armonie, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Bernard Blistène, Château de Malle, Preignac 12 May–15 September 1985, ed. Centre d'art contemporain de Cadillac, Bordeaux 1985
Giuseppe Penone, Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble 27 March–9 June 1986, texts by Christine Poullain, Jean-Paul Monery, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble 1986
Giuseppe Penone, Galerie Buchmann, Basel 27 May–26 July 1986, texts by Giuseppe Penone, ed. Galerie Buchmann, Basel 1986
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Philippe Robert, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes 27 June–29 September 1986, texts by Daniel Soutif, Remo Guidieri, Jean-Louis Baudry, ed. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes 1986
Giuseppe Penone. Creuser la Mémoire de la Boue (Exercice de sculpture), curated by Laurent Busine, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi 18 October–21 December 1986, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Lebeer-Hossmann, Bruxelles 1986
Giuseppe Penone, Musée Rodin, Paris 29 June–12 September 1988, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Jacques Vilain, Philippe Piguet, ed. Musée Rodin, Paris 1988
Penone, curated by Dede Auregli, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose, Bologna 26 November 1989–16 January 1990, texts by Dede Auregli, Bernard Blistène, ed. Nuova Alfa Editoriale, Bologna 1989
Giuseppe Penone. Foglie e suture, Eglise de Courmelois, Reims/Val-de-Vesle 23 June–31 August 1991, texts by Philippe Piguet, ed. Silo Art Contemporain, Reims 1991
Penone. L'Espace de la main, curated by Michele Lavallée and Jonas Storsve, Ancienne Douane, Strasburgo 26 October 1991–19 January 1992, texts by Roland Recht, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Les Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1991
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Ida Gianelli and Giorgio Verzotti, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 15 November 1991–9 February 1992, texts by Ida Gianelli, Johannes Cladders, Remo Guidieri, Daniel Soutif, Giorgio Verzotti, Giuseppe Penone, Anna Braggion, ed. Fabbri Editori, Milano 1991
Giuseppe Penone invita Johannes Cladders, curated by Erno Vroonen, Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Scavi Archeologici - Palazzi Scaligeri, Verona 5 September–4 October 1992, texts by Erno Vroonen, Johannes Cladders, ed. Associazione Culturale Caronte, Verona 1992
Giuseppe Penone. La structure du temps, Musée-Château d'Annecy, Annecy 16 October 1993–23 January 1994, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Dao – La Petite Ecole, Annecy 1993
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Guy Tosatto, Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi, Fossano 4 June–30 August 1994, texts by Guy Tosatto, ed. Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi-SEI, Fossano-Torino 1994
Giuseppe Penone. L'image du toucher, FRAC Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain de Picardie, Amiens 1 October–11 December 1994, texts by Giuseppe Penone, ed. FRAC Picardie, Amiens 1994
Giuseppe Penone. Die Adern des Steins, curated by Gabriele Sabolewski and Cornelia Plaas, Kunstmuseum, Bonn 14 March–19 May 1997, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota 5 August–3 November 1997, texts by Dieter Ronte, Christoph Schreier, Masahiro Aoki, Giuseppe Penone, Giorgio Verzotti, ed. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1997
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Guy Tosatto, Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes 6 June–7 September 1997; De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg 11 October 1997–22 February 1998; Trento 13 March–3 May 1998, texts by Guy Tosatto, Giuseppe Penone, Georges Didi-Huberman, ed. Hopefulmonster, Torino 1997
Giuseppe Penone 1968–1998, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 22 January–4 April 1999, texts by Miguel Fernández-Cid, Daniel Soutif, Doris von Drathen, Guy Tosatto, Giuseppe Penone, Giorgio Verzotti, ed. CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 1999
Giuseppe Penone. To Breathe, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublino 20 October–4 December 1999, texts by John Hutchinson, ed. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 1999
Giuseppe Penone. Spoglia d'oro su spine d'acacia, curated by Daniela Lancioni, Spazio per l'arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, Roma 18 March–31 July 2002, texts by Silvia Bordini, Claudio Zambianchi, Daniela Lancioni, Informadarte, Federica Guida and interview by students from Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, ed. Comune di Roma, Rome 2002
Giuseppe Penone. The Imprint of Drawing / L'impronta del disegno, curated by Catherine de Zegher, The Drawing Center, New York 23 January–6 March 2004; Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes 27 March–9 May 2004, texts by Catherine de Zegher, Kathryn A. Tuma, Briony Fer, Michael Newman, Ruggero Penone, ed. The Drawing Center, New York 2004
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Catherine Grenier, Galerie Sud, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 21 April–23 August 2004, texts by Bruno Racine, Alfred Pacquement, Catherine Grenier, Annalisa Rimmaudo, ed. Centre Pompidou, Paris / Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona 2004
L'arbre de Penone dans le jardin de Cézanne, Jardin Publique du Parc du Jas de Bouffan, Aix-en-Provence, 16 May–30 October 2006; Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence 9 June–17 September 2006, text by Raymond Galle, ed. 200RD10 Lieu d'Art Contemporain, Avignon 2006
Giuseppe Penone. Sculture di linfa, curated by Ida Gianelli, 52. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italiano, Venezia 10 June–21 November 2007, texts by Ida Gianelli, Didier Semin, Giuseppe Penone, Daniela Lancioni, ed. Electa, Milano 2007
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Daniela Lancioni, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Roma 30 January- 25 March 2008, texts by Jean Christophe Bailly, Giuseppe Penone, Daniela Lancioni, Graziella Lonardi, Richard Peduzzi, ed. Hazan, Paris 2008
Giuseppe Penone. Matrice de sève, “Carnets d'études”, n. 14, ENSBA École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna-Cour vitréee du Palais des études, Paris 15 May–17 July 2009, texts by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Adrien Goetz, Federico Nicolao, ed. Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris 2009
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Masao Kitatani and Toshiharu Suzuki, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota 7 July–23 September 2009, texts by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Didier Semin, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Catherine Grenier, ed. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota 2009
Des veines, au ciel, ouvertes. Giuseppe Penone, MAC's Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Communauté Française de Belgique au Grand-Hornu, Hornu 31 October 2010–13 February 2011, texts by Laurent Busine and Denis Gielen, ed. MAC's, Hornu 2010
Giuseppe Penone. Spazio di luce, texts by Douglas Fogle, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Whitechapel Gallery, London 2012
Giuseppe Penone. The Hidden Life Within, curated by Matthew Teitelbaum, AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2 October 2011–6 February 2012, texts by Germano Celant, John Bentley Mays, Didier Semin, ed. Black Dog Publishing, London 2013
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Dieter Schwarz, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur 27 April–11 August 2013, texts by Dieter Schwarz, ed. Richter/Fey Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013
Giuseppe Penone. Le Corps d'un jardin, curated by Laurent Busine, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris 25 May–22 June 2013, texts by Laurent Busine, ed. Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2013
Penone Versailles, curated by Alfred Pacquement, Château de Versailles 11 June–31 October 2013, texts by Alfred Pacquement, Frédéric Paul, Hervé Brunon, Daniela Lancioni, ed. de la Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris 2013
Giuseppe Penone. 22 opere a Versailles, curated by Laurent Busine, Château de Versailles 11 June–31 October 2013, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Château de Versailles - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2013
Mad. Sq. Art. Giuseppe Penone, Madison Square Park, New York 26 September 2013–9 February 2014, texts by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Michael Brenson, ed. Madison Square Park, New York 2013
Giuseppe Penone. Germinazione, curated by Laurent Busine, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice 1 December 2013–30 March 2014, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2013
Giuseppe Penone. Circling, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, Londra 11 April–31 May 2014, texts by Laurent Busine, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Gagosian Gallery, Londra - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2014
Giuseppe Penone. Prospettiva vegetale, curated by Arabella Natalini and Sergio Risaliti, Forte di Belvedere and Giardino di Boboli, Firenze 5 July–5 October 2014, texts by Dario Nardella, Cristina Acidini, Sergio Risaliti, Arabella Natalini, Matteo Ceriana, Alfred Pacquement, Michael Brenson, Flavio Arensi, Laurent Busine, Alessandra Acocella, Elena Magini, Daniela Lancioni, ed. Forma, Firenze 2014
Giuseppe Penone. Ramificazioni del Pensiero / Branches of Thought, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles 5 September–18 October 2014, texts by Laurent Busine, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2014
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Guy Tosatto, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble 22 November 2014–22 February 2015, texts by Guy Tosatto, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Actes Sud-Musée de Grenoble, Arles-Grenoble 2014
From Arte Povera. Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Luciano Fabro, curated by Dieter Schwarz, texts by Maddalena Ditsch, Dieter Schwarz, ed. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2015
Giuseppe Penone. Regards croisés, curated by Bernard Fibicher, mcb-a Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 25 September 2015–3 January 2016, texts by Bernard Fibicher, Giuseppe Penone, Ruggero Penone, Didier Semin, ed. mcb-a Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne / 5 Continents, Milano 2015
Giuseppe Penone. Scultura, MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto 19 March–26 June 2016, texts by Gianfranco Maraniello, Alain Fleischer, ed. Electa, Milano 2016
Giuseppe Penone in het Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10 June–2 October 2016, texts by Alfred Pacquement, Fritz Scholten, ed. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2016
Giuseppe Penone. Equivalenze, Gagosian Gallery, Roma 27 January–15 April 2017, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Gagosian Gallery, Roma - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2017
Giuseppe Penone. Matrice, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Rome 27 January–16 July 2017, texts by Pietro Beccari, Federica Galloni, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Massimiliano Gioni, ed. Fendi- Rizzoli, Roma-Milano 2017
Giuseppe Penone. Images de pierre, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice 28 May–5 November 2017, texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, ed. Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice - Casier/Fieuws, Bruxelles 2017
Giuseppe Penone. A tree in the wood, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 26 May 2018–28 April 2019, texts by Peter Murray, Clare Lilley, Martin Gayford, Sarah Coulson, ed. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2018
Giuseppe Penone. Incidenze del vuoto / Incidences of the void, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chiesa di San Francesco, Cuneo and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 11 October 2019–2 February 2020, texts by Giandomenico Genta, Fiorenzo Alfieri, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli 2019
Penone. Disegni, curated by Marco Tonelli, Palazzo Collicola, Galleria d’Arte Moderna “G. Carandente”, Spoleto 26 June–26 September 2021, texts by Marco Tonelli, Francesco Guzzetti, Magonza, Arezzo 2021
Giuseppe Penone. Alberi in versi, curated by di Eike D. Schmidt, Gianfranco Maraniello, Renata Pintus, Florence, The Uffizi Gallery, 6 July–3 October 2021, texts by Eike D. Schmidt, Gianfranco Maraniello, Giuseppe Penone, Renata Pintus, Carlo Ossola, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi/Giunti Editore, Florence 2021
Giuseppe Penone. Sève et pensée, curated by Marie Minssieux-Chamonard e Cécile Pocheau-Lesteven, Bibliothèque nationale de France - François-Mitterand, Paris 12 October–23 January 2022, preface by Laurence Engel, texts by Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, Cécile Pocheau-Lesteven, Francesco Guzzetti, BnF Éditions, Paris 2021
Propagazioni. Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres, curated by Giulio Dalvit e Xavier F. Salmon, Frick Madison - Frick collection, New York 17 March-28 August 2022, The Frick Collection/D Giles Limited, New York 2022
River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s drawings, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia 24 September 2022-26 February 2023, texts by Lara Demori, Jacklyn Chi, Thomas Primeau, Giuseppe Penone, Philadelphia Museum of Art - Yale University Press 2022
Giuseppe Penone à La Tourette, curated by Marc Chauveau, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux 6 September-24 December 2022, texts by Marc Chauveau, Didier Semin, Henry-Claude Cousseau, Galerie 8+4 - Bernard Chauveau Édition, Paris 2022
Giuseppe Penone - Dessins, curated by Jonas Storsve and Lætitia Pesenti, Centre Pompidou, Paris 19 October 2022-6 March 2023, texts by Jonas Storsve, Filippo Bosco, Daniela Lancioni, Hugo Daniel and Giuseppe Penone, éd. Centre Pompidou, Paris 2022
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Barbara Bos and Suzanne Swarts, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar 8 October-29 January 2022, texts by Berlinde De Bruyckere, Cees Nooteboom, Giuseppe Penone, Suzanne Swarts, ed. Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar 2022
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Francesco Stocchi, texts by Francesco Stocchi, Francesca Cappelletti, Andrea Cortellessa, Electa, Milano, 2023
Monography
Germano Celant, Penone, ed. Electa, Milano 1989
Jean François Robic, Conversation avec Giuseppe Penone, ed. Centre de Recherches en Arts Plastiques, Université des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg 1994
Georges Didi-Huberman, Être crâne. Lieu, contact, pensée, sculpture, ed. De Minuit, Paris 2000
Didier Semin, Le sablier de Penone, via Piero della Francesca, Alfred Hitchcock et Andreï Tarkovski, ed. L'Echoppe, Paris 2005
Jean-Louis Vincendeau, Giuseppe Penone, ed. Eoliennes, Paris 2007
Il giardino delle sculture fluide di Giuseppe Penone, curated by Ida Gianelli, texts by Ida Gianelli, Germano Celant, Mirella Macera, Hervé Brunon, Gaia Casagrande, fotografie di Luca Stoppini, ed. Allemandi, Torino 2007
Didier Semin, Minéralogies végétales. Penone à Venise, ed. L'échoppe, Paris 2008
Giuseppe Penone. Arbre des voyelles, texts by Henri Loyrette, Olivier Kaeppelin, Daniel Soutif, Marie-Laure Bernadac, ed. Musée du Louvre-Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris 2010
Giuseppe Penone. Le regard tactile. Entretiens avec Françoise Jaunin, curated by Françoise Jaunin, ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne 2012
Giuseppe Penone, curated by Laurent Busine, texts by Didier Semin, Laurent Busine, Benjamin Buchloh, Daniela Lancioni, Ruggero Penone, ed. Fonds Mercator, Bruxelles 2012
Frédéric Paul, Giuseppe Penone, archéologie, ed. Actes Sud, Arles 2014
Giuseppe Penone. The Inner life of Forms, curated by Carlos Basualdo, texts by Carlos Basualdo, Emily Braun, Tim Ingold, Rémi Labrusse, Daniela Lancioni, Ruggero Penone, Salvatore Settis, ed. Gagosian, New York 2018
Giuseppe Penone, Alain Elkann, 474 Risposte, ed. Bompiani, Milan 2022
Alice Iacobone, Per crescita di buio. Estetica e poetica di Giuseppe Penone, ed. Quodlibet, Macerata 2023