Arte Povera, the critical theory coined by Germano Celant in 1967 and based on the work of a number of Italian artists, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio. These artists rejected traditional artistic languages. The appearance of Penone in this group of artists coincided with the emergence in the critical elaborations of the "magical and wonder-arousing value of the natural elements". This was at a time when dialogue and debate with the coeval international avantgardes was becoming most intense, conducted through a series of group surveys in which Penone took part. These events included Konzeption-Conception at the Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen in 1969, conceptual art arte povera land art at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna in Turin and Information at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970. Honours and awards 2001 of the Rolf Schock Prize, Visual Arts. 2014 Praemium Imperiale, Sculpture Bibliography Germano Celant, Arte Povera (Milan: Mazzotta, 1969) Jean-Christophe Ammann, ed., Giuseppe Penone ex. cat. (Lucerne: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1977) Germano Celant, Giuseppe Penone ex. cat. (Essen: Museum Folkwang Essen, 1978) Jessica Bradley, Giuseppe Penone ex. cat. (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1984) Catalog of Giuseppe Penone Sculture du Linfa, Biennale di Venezia, 2007 Daniela Lancioni, and Carlos Basualdo, Giuseppe Penone: The Inner Life of Forms (New York: Gagosian, 2018) References External links Giuseppe Penone Official Website 1947 births Living people People from Garessio Italian contemporary artists Rolf Schock Prize laureates Arte Povera Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale