Giuseppe Penone Svolgere la Propria Pelle (To Unravel One's Own...

About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs
Giueseppe Penone
b. 1947
Svolgere la Propria Pelle (To Unravel One's Own Skin)

a sequence of 7 zinc-plate photo-collages, each mounted, one signed, dated and editioned '2/25' in pencil on the mount, each framed, a Walker Art Center exhibition label on the reverse of one
each frame: 27½ by 42⅛ in. (69.9 by 107 cm.)
Executed in 1970-71.

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Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

While these prints have not been examined out of the frame, they appear to be in generally excellent condition. There are occasional rust-colored deposits on the mounts, possibly foxing.

Catalogue Note:
“The skin like the eye, is a boundary element, the end point capable of dividing and separating us from what surrounds us, the final point capable of physically enveloping enormous expanses…It is the point that allows me, still and after all, to recognize myself” - Giuseppe Penone

Provenance:
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner