Giuseppe Penone is an Italian Conceptual artist. Noted for his associations with the Arte Povera movement, Penone's work primarily focuses on the relationship between humankind and nature. He uses a ...

“Arte Povera is radicality,” he declared ... This major presentation will feature painting and sculpture spanning the Italian artist’s groundbreaking practice from the early 1960s ...

He maintained a lifelong interest in the use of humble and discarded materials and, at the height of his career, was considered one of the stars of the Italian art movement Arte Povera. Born on June ...

Arte Povera, which means “poor art” in Italian, aimed to disrupt the commercialization of the contemporary art world by favoring non-traditional, low-value materials. The 91-year-old artist ...