Giuseppe Penone, Huang Yong Ping, and Salvatore Ferragamo exhibitions covered in Italian press

Giuseppe Penone discusses his relationship with nature and his sculpture practice in an interview with Marco Vallora on La Stampa, coinciding with his exhibitions at Mart in Rovereto and the Reggia di Venaria. He describes how trees envelop and metabolize bronze, and reflects on a figurative bust of his son Ruggero from the 1980s, which he hesitated to show due to the Transavanguardia movement's return to figuration. Separately, Rocco Moliterni interviews Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping at the Grand Palais in Paris for the Monumenta exhibition, where Huang discusses his serpent installation referencing Chinese mythology, Deleuze, and the Bible. In Florence, the Corriere della Sera reports on a Salvatore Ferragamo exhibition spanning five venues: Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Galleria del Costume and Galleria d'Arte Moderna at Palazzo Pitti, Museo Marino Marini, and Museo del Tessuto in Prato, featuring avant-garde prototypes from the 1920s made of plexiglas, steel, and poor materials.