The exhibition that opens these days in Paris (Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu) is focus on a recurrent theme of Penone’s artistic research, the imprint, now explored through a series of new drawings and paintings entitled Impronte di Luce (Imprints of Light). The gestures of the hands imprinted on paper with ink and transported onto canvas by using Le Corbusier’s chromatic palette, enlarged within the perfect proportions of a square, reveal themselves as unexpected images of bodies, to be compared with the tormented forms of a past work, Maldoror (1986-1988).

On Wednesday 18 October 2023 at 15.00, under the dome of the Palais of the Institut de France, the installation ceremony of Giuseppe Penone as foreign associate member of the sculpture section of the Académie des beaux-arts will take place. The event will be broadcast live on the Académie's You Tube channel.

From March 29 to May 20 Gagosian Gallery presents, at Gagosian Shop in London’s Burlington Arcade, Giuseppe Penone. Somersault. The event, which takes its name from the series of engravings exhibited here, reviews Giuseppe Penone's artistic career through an almost complete selection of his writings, monographs and exhibition catalogues, from his international beginnings to his most recent artist’s book Le Bois Sacré du Couvent de La Tourette (2022). The presentation includes two posters from the 1970 and 1971 Munich exhibitions, two examples of the engraving Identity and a rare edition with the artist's autograph text of the iconic portrait Rovesciare i propri occhi (Reversing One’s Eyes)

Gesti universali (Universal Gestures) is the exhibition curated by Francesco Stocchi shown at the Galleria Borghese, where the relationship between art and nature that marks Francesca Cappelletti's direction and the poetics of Giuseppe Penone, creates an itinerary consisting of more than thirty works. In four rooms of the Gallery and in the gardens, Penone investigates the relationship between man and the surrounding matter, integrating the mineral world of statues from the collection with the organic and olfactory world of Respirare l’ombra [To Breath the Shadow] and Soffio di foglie [Breath of Leaves], the tactile sensitivity of Bernini with Pelle di cedro [Skin of Cedar] and Pelle di marmo e spine d’acacia [Marble Skin and Acacia Thorns]. Other series, including Alberi scortecciati [Debarked Trees] and Gesti vegetali [Vegetal Gestures] represent great themes of Giuseppe Penone’s practice: the questioning on sculpture and on the artist’s gesture, the relationship between time of nature and historical time as well as the dialogue, already present in ancient statuary and Baroque, between landscape, sculpture and nature.

In 2020, Giuseppe Penone donated to the Musée national d'art moderne in Paris an important corpus of 328 drawings, covering fifty years of activity from 1967. A selection of these drawings, some of which have never been shown before, is now presented to public in an exhibition that develops thematically, illustrating the stages of Penone's artistic career. As testimony to the value of drawing in the process of creation, four works from the Pompidou collection, chosen in relation to the drawings, are also included, as well as two other works by the artist that give back a complete sampling of the favorite materials of his art: wood, stone, clay, bronze and leaves.