![View of “Giuseppe Penone.” Foreground: La Geometria nelle mani (The Geometry in the Hands), 2007. Background, left to right: Pelle di grafite (riflesso di rodonite) (The Skin of Graphite [Reflection of Rodonite]) and Pelle di grafite (riflesso di uraninite) (The Skin of Graphite [Reflection of Uraninite]), both 2003–2006.](http://artforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id20558/picksimg_1064x.jpg)
Giuseppe Penone
With a consummate sense of form and surface, Giuseppe Penone renders this group of new and recent large-scale works with the distilled, intimate touch of a quick sketch on paper. Here, three large, multipanel graphite drawings, each titled Pelle di grafite (Graphite Skin), 2003–2006, two on black paper and one on black canvas, hang on each of the three windowless walls of the gallery’s ground floor. Penone creates abstract patterns, suggestive of vegetal or animal membranes, in luminous graphite. His marks on the dark matte backgrounds are wide tipped and deliberate, furthering the reflective