Giuseppe Penone : Sève Et Pensée

Exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 12 October 2021 - 23 January 2022

This exhibition catalogue offers an immersion into the world of Giuseppe Penone (1947-), a visual artist associated with the arte povera movement. His flagship work, Sève et pensée, is presented for the first time: a monumental installation created by rubbing a thirty-metre long acacia trunk on a fine linen canvas, the fruit of fifty years of reflection and creation on subjects dear to the artist - nature, memory and the book.