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Richard Serra, Calvino, 2009 © 2023 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Favoloso Calvino

October 13, 2023–February 4, 2024
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
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Favoloso Calvino, which translates to Fabulous Calvino, celebrates the centenary of the birth of the Italian author Italo Calvino (1923–1985), and examines his creative path by displaying art that inspired his imagination, writings, and theories. The exhibition comprises more than two hundred works including medieval illuminated manuscripts and tapestries as well as paintings, sculptures, and drawings by artists from the Renaissance to today, presented alongside original volumes and first editions of Calvino’s books. Work by Giuseppe Penone and Richard Serra is included.

Richard Serra, Calvino, 2009 © 2023 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2007 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Philippe Migeat

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Storie di pietra

October 13, 2023–January 14, 2024
Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome
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This exhibition, whose title translates to Stories of Stones, brings together nearly two hundred works, from the oldest terrestrial mineral dating back 4.4 billion years to the latest mineral, Sentimentite, created by contemporary artist Agnieszka Kurant. The exhibition explores the idea that stones have inspired artists from all eras. Work by Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2007 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Philippe Migeat

Giuseppe Penone, Albero porta – cedro (Door Tree – Cedar), 2012 © Giuseppe Penone. Photo: Josh White

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Giuseppe Penone in
Saint Francis of Assisi

May 6–July 30, 2023
National Gallery, London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Through art from the thirteenth century to the present day, this exhibition examines why Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) remains a figure of enormous relevance to our time. From early medieval panels, relics, and manuscripts to contemporary films, paintings, sculpture, and a Marvel comic, the exhibition shines a light on how the saint has captured the imagination of artists throughout the centuries, and how his appeal has transcended generations, continents, and different religious traditions. Work by Giuseppe Penone is included.

Giuseppe Penone, Albero porta – cedro (Door Tree – Cedar), 2012 © Giuseppe Penone. Photo: Josh White

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Gesti universali, Galleria Borghese, Rome, March 14–July 9, 2023. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone. Photo: S. Pellion, courtesy Galleria Borghese

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Gesti universali

March 14–July 9, 2023
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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Curated by Francesco Stocchi, this exhibition, whose title translates to Universal Gestures, features more than thirty works created by Giuseppe Penone between the 1970s and the early 2000s. Installed in both the ground-floor rooms and gardens of the Galleria Borghese, the sculptures highlight a symbiosis between built and natural forms, underlining the fluidity that unites all plant, human, and mineral elements. The exhibition proposes a new reading of the relationship between landscape and sculpture embodied in the museum’s collection of work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680).

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Gesti universali, Galleria Borghese, Rome, March 14–July 9, 2023. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone. Photo: S. Pellion, courtesy Galleria Borghese

Cristina Iglesias, Cave Study (x), 2022 (detail) © Cristina Iglesias. Photo: José Luis López de Zubiria, courtesy Cristina Iglesias Studio

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De la nature

October 22, 2022–March 19, 2023
Musée de Grenoble, France
www.museedegrenoble.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Of Nature, explores the work of four artists whose practices examine one of the major subjects of the twenty-first century: the relationship between humans and nature. Ecological awareness on a planetary scale is in the process of upsetting systems of thought in economics, politics, and culture. Work by Cristina Iglesias and Giuseppe Penone is included.

Cristina Iglesias, Cave Study (x), 2022 (detail) © Cristina Iglesias. Photo: José Luis López de Zubiria, courtesy Cristina Iglesias Studio

Giuseppe Penone, 2450 grammi (2450 Grams), 1994 © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Dessins

October 19, 2022–March 6, 2023
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

In 2020, Giuseppe Penone made a substantial donation to the Centre Pompidou in Paris: 328 drawings covering fifty years of creation, from 1967 to 2019. This exhibition presents 241 drawings from his gift, displayed thematically rather than in chronological order, to convey the importance of serial work. Six sculptures are shown alongside the drawings, showcasing all of Penone’s favorite materials: wood, clay, stone, leaves, and bronze. 

Giuseppe Penone, 2450 grammi (2450 Grams), 1994 © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

Installation view, River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 24, 2022–February 26, 2023. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art

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River of Forms
Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings

September 24, 2022–February 26, 2023
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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River of Forms, curated by Carlos Basualdo, examines the central role that drawing plays in Giuseppe Penone’s practice and how it informs many of his large sculptural works from the 1960s until today. Celebrating the artist’s recent gift of drawings and artist’s books to the museum, this exhibition of nearly two hundred works on paper and a selection of sculptures reflects Penone’s extraordinary range of techniques and materials, and his belief in art as a means of understanding our place in the world.

Installation view, River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 24, 2022–February 26, 2023. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Penone, Sculture di linfa (Lymph Sculptures), 2005–07, installation view, 52nd Biennale di Venezia © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Giuseppe Penone

October 8, 2022–January 29, 2023
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
www.voorlinden.nl

Throughout his fifty-year career, Giuseppe Penone, a protagonist of Arte Povera, has explored respiration, growth, and aging—among other involuntary processes—to create an expansive body of work that includes sculpture, performance, works on paper, and photography. This retrospective exhibition features both early and recent work by Penone.

Giuseppe Penone, Sculture di linfa (Lymph Sculptures), 2005–07, installation view, 52nd Biennale di Venezia © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

Giuseppe Penone, Svolgere la propria pelle (To Unroll One’s Skin), 1970 (detail) © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Giuseppe Penone in
Renverser ses yeux: Autour de l’arte povera 1960–1975: photographie, film, vidéo

October 11, 2022–January 29, 2023
Jeu de Paume and Le Bal, Paris
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For the first time, Jeu de Paume and Le Bal in Paris present a joint thematic exhibition on the use of media—photography, film, and video—by Italian artists of the 1960s and early 1970s. This show, whose title translates to Reversing the Eye: Arte Povera and Beyond, 1960–75: Photography, Film, Video, provides an overview of the visual experiments of the Arte Povera group and other members of the Italian avant-garde. Work by Giuseppe Penone is included.

Giuseppe Penone, Svolgere la propria pelle (To Unroll One’s Skin), 1970 (detail) © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone à La Tourette, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France, September 6–December 24, 2022. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jonathan Letoublon

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Giuseppe Penone à La Tourette

September 6–December 24, 2022
Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
www.couventdelatourette.fr

Invited to show at Couvent de La Tourette, the monastery designed by Le Corbusier in Éveux, France, Giuseppe Penone executed in situ a series of rubbings of the building’s walls, creating a group of frottages and a limited-edition book. Included in the exhibition as well are older and recent works that explore a dialogue between architecture and nature.

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone à La Tourette, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France, September 6–December 24, 2022. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jonathan Letoublon

Installation view, Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres, Frick Madison, New York, March 17–August 28, 2022. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Propagazioni
Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres

March 17–August 28, 2022
Frick Madison, New York
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This one-room installation of work by Giuseppe Penone is displayed at Frick Madison within the broader context of the museum’s collection of decorative arts, old master paintings, and sculpture. Consisting of eleven porcelain disks created during Penone’s 2013 collaboration with the Sèvres porcelain manufactory in France, the work, which has never before been shown publicly, invites a dialogue with the Frick’s rich holdings in the medium.

Frick Madison is the Frick Collection’s temporary home in New York’s iconic Breuer building on the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street during the renovation of its own buildings.

Installation view, Propagazioni: Giuseppe Penone at Sèvres, Frick Madison, New York, March 17–August 28, 2022. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

Giuseppe Penone, Vaso, 1986, installation view, Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Daniele Molajoli/AFR–Villa Medici

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Art Club #34

December 17, 2021–February 27, 2022
Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome
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As part of its Art Club exhibition series curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, nine works by Giuseppe Penone are on view at Villa Medici in Rome, including five sculptures in terra-cotta and bronze and a video. In the exhibition, conceived for the private rooms of Cardinal Ferdinando de Medici, Penone aims to highlight the singularity of these intimate spaces by presenting emblematic works that question the material and the concept of sculpture.

Giuseppe Penone, Vaso, 1986, installation view, Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Daniele Molajoli/AFR–Villa Medici

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Sève et pensée, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, October 12, 2021–January 23, 2022. Artwork © ADAGP, Paris, 2021. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Sève et pensée

October 12, 2021–January 23, 2022
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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Sève et pensée (Sap and Thought), an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France’s François-Mitterand location, centers on Giuseppe Penone’s spectacular installation Pensieri e linfa (Sap and Thought) (2021), produced especially for the site, which features a frottage rubbing of a 30-meter-long acacia tree trunk on a length of canvas. Handwritten text by the artist runs along both sides of the imprint. Also included are previously unseen works, drawings, photographs, and books, as well as a series of eighteen recent prints that Penone has gifted to the library.

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Sève et pensée, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, October 12, 2021–January 23, 2022. Artwork © ADAGP, Paris, 2021. Photo: Archivio Penone

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Alberi In-Versi, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy, July 6–October 3, 2021. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: courtesy Gallerie degli Uffizi

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Alberi In-Versi

July 6–October 3, 2021
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
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This exhibition of Giuseppe Penone’s work, whose title translates to In-verse Trees, includes over thirty drawings, photographs, sculptures, and installations. Presented as part of a yearlong celebration honoring the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his death, the exhibition is inspired by the plant symbolism in “Paradiso,” the third and final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Earlier in the year Penone’s monumental sculpture Abete (Fir) (2013) was installed in the Piazza della Signoria in anticipation of this exhibition.

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Alberi In-Versi, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy, July 6–October 3, 2021. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: courtesy Gallerie degli Uffizi

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Disegni, Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Giovanni Carandente,” Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy, June 26–September 26, 2021. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Stefano Bonilli

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Disegni

June 26–September 26, 2021
Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Giovanni Carandente,” Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
www.palazzocollicola.it

This exhibition, whose title translates to Drawings, is the first show in Italy dedicated to Giuseppe Penone’s use of the medium. Outlining the conceptual landscape that forms his practice, the exhibition includes drawings from many different series, sketches for sculptures, and photographs of woods, ponds, and branches taken by Penone in 1976.

Installation view, Giuseppe Penone: Disegni, Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Giovanni Carandente,” Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy, June 26–September 26, 2021. Artwork © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Stefano Bonilli

Giuseppe Penone, Equivalenze, 2016, installation view, Procida, Italy © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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Giuseppe Penone in
Panorama Procida

September 2–5, 2021
Various locations in Procida, Italy
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Panorama Procida brings together around fifty works spanning sculpture, painting, video, performance, and installations from a wide range of historical contexts. The exhibition takes place at twenty sites across the island of Procida, off the coast of Naples, including public and private buildings, churches, and historical palazzos, all pivoting around the fortified village of Terra Murata, which is dominated by the sixteenth-century Palazzo d’Avalos, a former prison citadel. This is the first in a series of Panorama exhibitions organized by ITALICS, a consortium of art galleries active in Italy cofounded by Lorenzo Fiaschi and Pepi Marchetti Franchi that work together, both on- and offline, to highlight Italy’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage. Work by Giuseppe Penone is included.

Giuseppe Penone, Equivalenze, 2016, installation view, Procida, Italy © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Theaster Gates, Monument in Waiting, 2020, installation view, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York © Theaster Gates. Photo: courtesy GRAY, Chicago/New York

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Field of Dreams

August 20, 2020–August 31, 2021
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York
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Field of Dreams activates the Parrish Art Museum’s expansive meadows with sculpture by ten international, multigenerational artists that engages and responds to the museum’s architecture and landscape. Created to extend the galleries outdoors, the exhibition series is part of the Parrish’s new Art in the Meadow initiative that enlivens its 14-acre grounds with artworks, performances, and projections. Work by Theaster Gates, Roy Lichtenstein, and Giuseppe Penone is included.

Theaster Gates, Monument in Waiting, 2020, installation view, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York © Theaster Gates. Photo: courtesy GRAY, Chicago/New York

Giuseppe Penone, Indistinti confini—Noce, 2017, installation view, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jacqueline Trichard/Centre Pompidou-Metz

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Indistinti confini—Noce
Giuseppe Penone

February 21, 2020–January 11, 2021
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Centre Pompidou-Metz has invited Giuseppe Penone to install a new original work: a 49-foot-tall cast-bronze sculpture of a walnut tree (whose title translates to Indistinct Boundaries), with some sections and branches made of white marble.

Giuseppe Penone, Indistinti confini—Noce, 2017, installation view, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Jacqueline Trichard/Centre Pompidou-Metz

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione (Propagation), 2020 © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Mauro Del Papa

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La rivoluzione siamo noi
Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo

September 26, 2020–January 10, 2021
XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, Italy
www.xnlpiacenza.it

XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, a new cultural center dedicated to contemporary art, presents its inaugural exhibition, whose title translates to We Are the Revolution: Contemporary Italian Collecting. The show features more than 150 works from eighteen of the most important art collections in Italy. Giuseppe Penone is creating a site-specific piece for the exhibition, and work by Urs Fischer, Ellen Gallagher, Piero Manzoni, and Andy Warhol is also included.

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione (Propagation), 2020 © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Mauro Del Papa

Giuseppe Penone, Una pelle di foglie, 1999 © Giuseppe Penone 

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Dessins, Gravures, et Sculptures

March 28, 2020–January 3, 2021
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
www.domaine-chaumont.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Drawings, Etchings, and Sculptures, consists of two large sculptures, thirty original drawings, and seven engravings by Giuseppe Penone.

Giuseppe Penone, Una pelle di foglie, 1999 © Giuseppe Penone 

Jeff Wall, Daybreak (on an olive farm/Negev Desert/Israel), 2011 © Jeff Wall

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Among the Trees

March 4–October 31, 2020
Hayward Gallery, London
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and forests. Beginning with pioneering works from the late 1960s, Among the Trees surveys an expansive artistic terrain, including sculpture, painting, installation, video, and photography. The show invites viewers to consider trees as symbols and as living organisms that have helped to shape human civilization. Work by Sally Mann, Giuseppe Penone, and Jeff Wall is included.

Jeff Wall, Daybreak (on an olive farm/Negev Desert/Israel), 2011 © Jeff Wall

Giuseppe Penone, Ripetere il bosco (To Repeat the Forest), 1969–97 © Giuseppe Penone/2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

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Giuseppe Penone

April 13, 2019–June 28, 2020
Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken, Germany
www.kulturbesitz.de

Giuseppe Penone’s aesthetics are based on a dialogue with nature and its forces and revolve around the question of the limits of one’s own body and perception. Included in this eponymous exhibition is the multipart expansive sculpture Coteccia (1983), which is presented in Germany for the first time.

Giuseppe Penone, Ripetere il bosco (To Repeat the Forest), 1969–97 © Giuseppe Penone/2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Archivio Penone

Installation view, Sublimi anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 22, 2019–January 6, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Yvonne Rainer; © 2020 Giuseppe Penone/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Monkeys VideoLab

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Sublimi anatomie

October 22, 2019–January 6, 2020
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
www.palazzoesposizioni.it

This show, whose title translates to Sublime Anatomies, reveals the astounding nature of the human body, exploring the common ground between art and science through artistic and scientific works, including artifacts and documents, which illustrate the evolution of human anatomical study and its close relation to contemporary artistic research. Work by Giuseppe Penone is included.

Installation view, Sublimi anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, October 22, 2019–January 6, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Yvonne Rainer; © 2020 Giuseppe Penone/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Monkeys VideoLab

Installation view, Pompei e Santorini: l’eternità in un giorno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, October 11, 2019–January 6, 2020. Artwork © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Studio Idini

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Pompei e Santorini
l’eternità in un giorno

October 11, 2019–January 6, 2020
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
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Pompeii and Santorini: Eternity in a Day offers a comparison between two ancient sites whose entire societies were buried by eruptions—Pompeii and Santorini. Through themes of catastrophe and rebirth, visitors explore how natural disasters become inspiration for art. Work by Damien Hirst, Giuseppe Penone, and Andy Warhol is included.

Installation view, Pompei e Santorini: l’eternità in un giorno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, October 11, 2019–January 6, 2020. Artwork © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Studio Idini