A major figure in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s, the
renowned Italian artist Giuseppe Penone is known for his
exploration of the relationship between art and the natural world
in a body of work that includes sculpture, performance, works on
paper, and even garden design. His first works in porcelain, the
exquisite disks presented here draw attention to the moment of
touch—the convergence of surface and skin—that underpins so
much of his work. Published to accompany The Frick Collection, New
York’s temporary installation of works by Penone, this new volume
comprises eleven porcelain disks that the artist made during his
2013 residency at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, the
influential porcelain factory founded in the 18th century. A
continuation of his Propagazioni (Propagations) series, begun in
1995, which includes various media, each disk bears the imprint of
one of the artist’s fingertips. One of them is in gold, its
imprint a variation on the artist’s index finger. Never before
presented to the public, the installation of the disks in a gallery
adjacent to the Frick’s early Italian paintings on gold grounds
and the porcelain room kindles a rich artistic dialogue with both
porcelain and gold.
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