The Ferrero Foundation in Alba is hosting the exhibition Giuseppe Penone: Impronte di Luce (Imprints of Light), an extensive retrospective dedicated to the artist, conceived specifically for the Foundation’s spaces. Curated by Jonas Storsve, in collaboration with the artist, the exhibition presents more than one hundred works, offering a visual narrative of the extensive artistic production of Penone, spanning a period from the 1960s to the present day.

The theme of the imprint, central to the artist’s research, runs through his entire career: from the pioneering work Alpi Marittime of 1968, in which he experiments with direct contact between body and nature, to the Impronte di luce series made between 2022 and 2023, exhibited for the first time in Italy on this occasion. 

The exhibition addresses the theme of the imprint through different artistic languages, from drawing to photography, from sculpture to carving, offering an overview of the techniques and materials used by Penone. The imprint, in his vision, becomes the symbol of the connection between different surfaces and finds its full expression in nature, conceived as a complex ecosystem in which every element, from man to leaves, from trees to earth, is interconnected.