Svolgere la propria pelle (To Unroll One's Skin)

1970-1971

Giuseppe Penone

Associated Names
Giuseppe Penone

Artist, Italian, born 1947

This is a collection of seven panels of black-and-white photographs arranged in grids, all assembled together in two rows, with three panels on the top and four on the bottom. Each of the seven panels has roughly ninety black-and-white photographs, although there are some blank, off-white spaces. The photographs display human features like faces, hands, and feet, all arranged together.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    7 panels of photolithographs

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen

  • Dimensions

    image: 65 × 103 cm (25 9/16 × 40 9/16 in.)
    mount: 69.4 × 107 cm (27 5/16 × 42 1/8 in.)
    framed: 71.76 × 109.22 × 2.54 cm (28 1/4 × 43 × 1 in.)
    overall: 71.76 × 764.54 × 2.54 cm (28 1/4 × 301 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.93.10.a-g

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on third panel, lower right in graphite on mount: Giuseppe Penone / 1970-71 / 3/25

Wikidata ID

Q64154311

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