Giuseppe Penone : Catalogue Raisonné Des Cartons D'invitation Expositions Personnelles 1969-2020

To follow and consider the work of an artist from his invitation cards is the precise, serious, close, lively and amused experience that has been undertaken here, with Giuseppe Penone, a major figure of the Italian scene, through interviews conducted in the artist's studio in Turin. In front of each invitation card, Penone reacts, clarifies, comments, drifts, talks about his galleries, the evolution of the art world, his childhood and his peasant father, "suspicious, ironic", of Liguria, He praises slowness when he evokes the mysteries of germination, and then evokes his arrival in Turin, an industrial city in the North, disrupted by trade union struggles, where the artistic tradition is absent, where arte povera is born, which he joins almost without wanting it. Here is Penone in his natural state, as we know him little, delivering his poetic vision of the relationship between man and nature. Here, in his metamorphoses, a magical artist who testifies to the moving reality of the world.

This volume offers a catalogue raisonné of the invitation cards of the artist's solo exhibitions from 1969 to 2000.