From March 14 to May 28 2023 the Galleria Borghese once again opens up to the contemporary, with an exhibition that is a tribute to the immutable vitality of sculpture and to a Master of Arte Povera Giuseppe Penone, curated by Francesco Stocchi.

The exhibition aims to bring to the study and research of something that is not present in the wonderful spaces of the Gallery, offering to the viewers the reading of a relationship and dialogue between the surrounding environment and the ancient sculptures present within the museum’s permanent collection.
Giuseppe Penone. Universal Gestures does not aim to make a comparison with the works and the environment already present, but rather to provide a new key to interpretation that takes the form of the completion of the elements already present in the Gallery.
In the rooms characterized by a triumph of marbles, sculptures and decorations, Penone adds an organic graft of leaves, leather, wood that connects and defines the two universes. In the garden, on the other hand, the dialogue is amplified through the presence of metal installations perfectly integrated with the surrounding nature.
Distancing themselves from any possible form of comparison with the Gallery, Penone’s works observe the material already present with the aim of exchanging different stimuli between the museum, nature, and the new materials introduced by the artist’s works.
This creates a unique and delicate contrast, yet perfectly dialoguing with the collection already present in the museum, celebrating the collection’s baroque history but giving it a new contemporary breath.

The exhibition was realized thanks to the support of FENDI, the official sponsor.

Giuseppe Penone was born in Garessio, near Cuneo, in 1947. He lives and works in Turin. He began exhibiting in 1968, after studying art at the Turin Accademia di Belle Arti, becoming part of the Arte Povera group and focusing his research on nature and its transformational processes. The Arte Povera movement, a term coined by Germano Celant, bases its work on two fundamental aspects: first, the materials implemented, and second, the manipulation and arrangement of materials.

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