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

Respirar la sombra. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1999.

Die Augen umkehren. Schriften 1968-2004. Kleve-Berlin: Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Tropen Verlag, 2006.

Giuseppe Penone. Scritti 1968-2008. Edited by Gianfranco Maraniello and Jonathan Watkins. Bologna- Birmingham: MAMbo, IKON, 2009.

Respirer l'ombre. Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, 2021.

Scritti. Milan: Electa, 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. Luzern: Kunstmuseum, 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. Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 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. Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1978.

Giuseppe Penone. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 14 February – 30 March 1980. Texts by Germano Celant, Giuseppe Penone. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1980.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Johannes Cladders. Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 23 June – 15 August 1982. Texts by John Cladders, Giuseppe Penone. Cologne: Walther König, 1982.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Jessica Bradley. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 7 October – 4 December 1983. Texts by Joseph Martin, Jessica Bradley. Ottawa: Musées Nationaux du Canada, 1983.

Giuseppe Penone. ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 4 July – 23 September 1984. Texts by Suzanne Pagé, Jessica Bradley, Giuseppe Penone, Giorgio Cerruti. Paris: ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1984.

Incredulo senza scusa di ordini regole misure e armonie. Curated by Gérard Guyot. Château de Malle, Preignac 12 May – 15 September 1985. Texts by Giuseppe Penone, Bernard Blistène. Bordeaux: Centre d'art contemporain de Cadillac, 1985.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Jean-Paul Monery, Christine Poullain and Hélène Vincent. Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble 27 March – 9 June 1986. Texts by Christine Poullain, Jean-Paul Monery, Giuseppe Penone. Grenoble: Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, 1986.

Giuseppe Penone. Neue Arbeiten. Galerie Buchmann, Basel 27 May – 26 July 1986. Texts by Giuseppe Penone. Basel: Galerie Buchmann, 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. Nantes: 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. Brussels: Lebeer-Hossmann, 1986.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Jacques Vilain and Nicole Barbier. Musée Rodin, Paris 29 June – 12 September 1988. Texts by Giuseppe Penone, Jacques Vilain, Philippe Piguet. Paris: Musée Rodin, 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. Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1989.

Giuseppe Penone. Foglie e suture. Curated by Christian Lapie. Silo Art Contemporain, Reims and Eglise de Courmelois, Val-de-Vesle 23 June – 31 August 1991. Texts by Philippe Piguet. Reims: Silo Art Contemporain, 1991.

Penone. L’Espace de la main. Curated by Roland Recht, Michele Lavallée and Jonas Storsve. Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg 26 October 1991 – 19 January 1992. Texts by Roland Recht, Giuseppe Penone. Strasbourg: Les Musées de la Ville de 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. Milan: Fabbri Editori, 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. Verona: Associazione Culturale Caronte, 1992.

Giuseppe Penone. La structure du temps. Curated by Annie Ducreux. Musée-Château d'Annecy, Annecy 16 October 1993 – 23 January 1994. Texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine. Annecy: Dao-La Petite Ecole, 1993.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Guy Tosatto. Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi, Fossano 4 June – 30 August 1994. Texts by Guy Tosatto. Fossano-Turin: Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi-SEI, 1994.

Giuseppe Penone. L'image du toucher. Curated by Yves Lecointre and Augusto Da Costa. FRAC Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain de Picardie, Amiens 1 October – 11 December 1994. Texts by Giuseppe Penone. Amiens: FRAC Picardie, 1994.

Giuseppe Penone. Die Adern des Steins. Curated by Gabriele Sabolewski and Cornelia Plaas. Kunstmuseum, Bonn 14 March – 19 May 1997 and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota 5 August – 3 November 1997. Texts by Dieter Ronte, Christoph Schreier, Masahiro Aoki, Giuseppe Penone, Giorgio Verzotti. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 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. Turin: Hopefulmonster, 1997.

Giuseppe Penone 1968-1998. Curated by Miguel Fernández-Cid and Cecilia Pereira Marimón. 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. Santiago de Compostela: CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1999.

Giuseppe Penone. To Breathe. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 20 October – 4 December 1999. Texts by John Hutchinson. Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1999.

Giuseppe Penone. Spoglia d'oro su spine d'acacia. Curated by Daniela Lancioni. Spazio per l'arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, Rome 18 March – 31 July 2002. Texts by Silvia Bordini, Claudio Zambianchi, Daniela Lancioni, Informadarte, Federica Guida, with an interview by students from Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza. Rome: Comune di Roma, 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 and Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes 27 March – 9 May 2004. Texts by Catherine de Zegher, Kathryn A. Tuma, Briony Fer, Michael Newman, Ruggero Penone. New York: The Drawing Center, 2004.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Catherine Grenier. Galerie Sud and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 21 April – 23 August 2004. Texts by Bruno Racine, Alfred Pacquement, Catherine Grenier, Annalisa Rimmaudo. Paris-Barcelona: Centre Pompidou-Fundación “la Caixa”, 2004.

L'arbre de Penone dans le jardin de Cézanne. Curated by Raymond Galle. Jardin Publique du Parc du Jas de Bouffan, Aix-en-Provence, 16 May – 30 October 2006 and Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence 9 June – 17 September 2006. Text by Raymond Galle. Avignon: 200rd10 Lieu d'Art Contemporain, 2006.

Giuseppe Penone. Sculture di linfa. Curated by Ida Gianelli. 52. International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, Venice 10 June – 21 November 2007. Texts by Ida Gianelli, Didier Semin, Giuseppe Penone, Daniela Lancioni. Milan: Electa, 2007.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Daniela Lancioni. Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome 30 January – 25 March 2008. Texts by Jean Christophe Bailly, Giuseppe Penone, Daniela Lancioni, Graziella Lonardi, Richard Peduzzi. Paris: Hazan, 2008.

Giuseppe Penone. Matrice de sève. Curated by Bruno Girveau and Emmanuelle Brugerolles. ENSBA École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna and Cour vitréee du Palais des études, Paris 15 May – 17 July 2009. Texts by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Adrien Goetz, Federico Nicolao. “Carnets d'études”, 14, Paris: Beaux-Arts de 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. Toyota: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2009.

Des veines, au ciel, ouvertes. Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Laurent Busine. 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. Hornu: MAC's, 2010.

Giuseppe Penone. Spazio di luce. Curated by Achim Borchardt-Hume, The Bloomberg Commission, Whitechapel Gallery, London 4 September 2012 – 27 October 2013, Whitechapel Gallery, London 4 September 2012 – 27 October 2013. Texts by Douglas Fogle, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Giuseppe Penone. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 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. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Dieter Schwarz. Kunstmuseum, Winterthur 27 April – 11 August 2013. Texts by Dieter Schwarz. Düsseldorf: Richter|Fey Verlag, 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. Paris-Brussels: Galerie Marian Goodman-Casier/Fieuws, 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. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, 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. Versailles-Brussels: Château de Versailles-Casier/Fieuws, 2013.

Mad. Sq. Art. Giuseppe Penone. Madison Square Park, New York 26 September 2013 – 9 February 2014. Texts by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Michael Brenson. New York: The Madison Square Park Conservancy, 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. Torre Pellice-Brussels: Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea-Casier/Fieuws, 2013.

Giuseppe Penone. Circling. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London 11 April – 31 May 2014. Texts by Laurent Busine, Giuseppe Penone. London-Brussels: Gagosian Gallery-Casier/Fieuws, 2014.

Giuseppe Penone. Prospettiva vegetale. Curated by Arabella Natalini and Sergio Risaliti. Forte di Belvedere and Giardino di Boboli, Florence 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. Florence: Forma, 2014.

Giuseppe Penone. Ramificazioni del Pensiero / Branches of Thought. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles 5 September – 18 October 2014. Texts by Laurent Busine, Giuseppe Penone. Los Angeles-Brussels: Gagosian Gallery-Casier/Fieuws, 2014.

Giuseppe Penone. Curated by Guy Tosatto. Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble 22 November 2014 – 22 February 2015. Texts by Guy Tosatto, Giuseppe Penone. Arles-Grenoble: Actes Sud-Musée de Grenoble, 2014.

From Arte Povera. Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Luciano Fabro. Curated by Dieter Schwarz. Texts by Maddalena Ditsch, Dieter Schwarz. New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 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. Lausanne-Milan: mcb-a Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts-5 Continents, 2015.

Giuseppe Penone. Scultura. Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello. MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto 19 March – 26 June 2016. Texts by Gianfranco Maraniello, Alain Fleischer. Milan: Electa, 2016.

Giuseppe Penone in het Rijksmuseum. Curated by Alfred Pacquement. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10 June – 2 October 2016. Texts by Alfred Pacquement, Frits Scholten. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016.

Giuseppe Penone. Equivalenze. Gagosian Gallery, Rome 27 January – 15 April 2017. Texts by Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine. Rome-Brussels: Gagosian Gallery-Casier/Fieuws, 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. Rome-Milan: Fendi- Rizzoli, 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. Torre Pellice-Brussels: Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea-Casier/Fieuws, 2017.

Giuseppe Penone. A Tree in the Wood. Curated by Clare Lilley. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 26 May 2018 – 28 April 2019. Texts by Peter Murray, Clare Lilley, Martin Gayford, Sarah Coulson. Wakefield: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 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. Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 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. Arezzo: Magonza, 2021.

Giuseppe Penone. Alberi in versi. Curated by Eike D. Schmidt, Gianfranco Maraniello, Renata Pintus. The Uffizi Gallery, Florence 6 July – 3 October 2021. Texts by Eike D. Schmidt, Gianfranco Maraniello, Giuseppe Penone, Renata Pintus, Carlo Ossola. Florence: Le Gallerie degli Uffizi-Giunti Editore, 2021.

Giuseppe Penone. Sève et pensée. Curated by Marie Minssieux-Chamonard and 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. Paris: BnF Éditions, 2021.

Propagazioni. Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres. Curated by Giulio Dalvit and Xavier F. Salmon. Frick Madison and Frick Collection, New York 17 March – 28 August 2022. New York: The Frick Collection-D Giles Limited, 2022.

River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings. Curated by Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs with Lara Demori. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia 24 September 2022 – 26 February 2023. Texts by Lara Demori, Jacklyn Chi, Thomas Primeau, Giuseppe Penone. Philadelphia-New Haven: 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. Paris: Galerie 8+4-Bernard Chauveau Édition, 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, Giuseppe Penone. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 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. Wassenaar: Voorlinden Museum, 2022.

Giuseppe Penone. Gesti universali. Curated by Francesco Stocchi. Galleria Borghese, Rome 14 March – 9 July 2023. Texts by Francesco Stocchi, Francesca Cappelletti, Andrea Cortellessa. Milan: Electa, 2023.

Giuseppe Penone. Impronte di luce, edited by Francesco Guzzetti, Ruggero Penone, Jonas Storsve Milan: Skira, 2024

Monography

Germano Celant. Penone. Milan: Electa, 1989.

Jean François Robic. Conversation avec Giuseppe Penone. Strasbourg: Centre de Recherches en Arts Plastiques, Université des Sciences Humaines, 1994.

Georges Didi-Huberman. Être crâne. Lieu, contact, pensée, sculpture. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2000.

Didier Semin. Le sablier de Penone, via Piero della Francesca, Alfred Hitchcock et Andreï Tarkovski. Paris: L’Échoppe, 2005.

Jean-Louis Vincendeau. Giuseppe Penone. Paris: Éolienne, 2007.

Il giardino delle sculture fluide di Giuseppe Penone. Edited by Ida Gianelli. Texts by Ida Gianelli, Germano Celant, Mirella Macera, Hervé Brunon, Gaia Casagrande. Photos by Luca Stoppini. Turin: Allemandi, 2007.

Didier Semin. Minéralogies végétales. Penone à Venise. Paris: L’Échoppe, 2008.

Giuseppe Penone. Arbre des voyelles. Texts by Henri Loyrette, Olivier Kaeppelin, Daniel Soutif, Marie-Laure Bernadac. Paris: Musée du Louvre-Beaux-arts de Paris, 2010.

Giuseppe Penone. Le regard tactile. Entretiens avec Françoise Jaunin. Edited by Françoise Jaunin. Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2012.

Giuseppe Penone. Edited by Laurent Busine. Texts by Didier Semin, Laurent Busine, Benjamin Buchloh, Daniela Lancioni, Ruggero Penone. Brussels: Fonds Mercator, 2012.

Frédéric Paul. Giuseppe Penone, archéologie. Arles: Actes Sud, 2014.

Giuseppe Penone. The Inner life of Forms. Edited by Carlos Basualdo. Texts by Carlos Basualdo, Emily Braun, Tim Ingold, Rémi Labrusse, Daniela Lancioni, Ruggero Penone, Salvatore Settis. New York: Gagosian, 2018.

Giuseppe Penone, Alain Elkann. 474 Risposte. Milan: Bompiani, 2022.

Alice Iacobone. Per crescita di buio. Estetica e poetica di Giuseppe Penone. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2023.