On view in New York is a selection of works that testifies to the continuity of Penone's reflection on the theme of the imprint, the artist's contact and action on matter, from his early works - represented here by the series Coincidenza di immagini (Coincidence of Images, 1970-1973) and Svolgere la propria pelle (To Unroll One’s Skin, 1970) - until today. In the plaster of the Cocci (Shards, 1979-1982), in the bronze of Geometrie nelle mani (Geometries in Hands, 2005), as well as in the terracotta of Avvolgere la terra - il colore nelle mani (To Envelop the Earth - The Colour in Hands, 2014), the memory of the gesture is preserved and the sculpture is originated as a cast of the negative of the hand. In the latter works, exhibited here for the first time, the imprint left by the artist in a handful of clay, enlarged in the shapes suspended by a steel cable, is revealed through the red, light pink, yellow and blue of Le Corbusier's chromatic palette, the same that is translated in the canvases of Impronte di luce (Imprints of Light, 2023).

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.