Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, curator of the Arte Povera exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce and an internationally-recognized specialist in Arte Povera, talks to Giuseppe Penone, a major figure in this artistic movement and studio director at the Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1997 and 2012, about the artist's seminal gestures and the genesis of the exhibition.

Giuseppe Penone is one of the most important sculptors of the generation of artists that critics traditionally associate with the Arte Povera movement, when he produced his first works in the late 1960s, worki