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.

The large retrospective at Museum Voorlinden is an immersive journey through the artist's work, focusing on sensory experience of sight, touch and smell, revealing the intimate connection of Penone's sculptural language with nature and its processes. One of the emblematic installations, Sculture di linfa (Lymph Sculptures) conceived for the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, is presented here again alongside iconic works from Svolgere la propria pelle [To Unroll One's Skin], to the Soffi [Breaths], to his debarked Trees, to Respirare l’ombra [To Breath the Shadow] and Spazio di luce [Space of Light] in a sequence of striking rooms, as well with outdoor creations such as Equivalenze [Equivalences] and Albero folgorato [Thunderstruck Tree].