At The Reflection of Bronze, on view April 22–July 2, 2026 at Gagosian in New York, Giuseppe Penone continues his long engagement with the relationship between nature, time, and material transformation. Curated by Adam D. Weinberg, the exhibition brings together bronze sculptures that extend Penone’s ongoing study of trees and organic growth into a medium associated with permanence and monument.

Across the works, natural forms are translated into bronze in a way that preserves their sense of movement rather than fixing them as static objects. Tree-like structures, fragments of growth, and surface impressions appear as if they are still in the process of becoming, held at a point between nature and object, transformation and stability.

Rather than presenting bronze as a closed or final material, Penone treats it as something that retains memory. The sculptures suggest traces of pressure, contact, and growth embedded within their surfaces, where natural processes are not illustrated but echoed.

In this way, the exhibition continues Penone’s broader practice: sculpture as a record of time rather than a fixed image of it. The works do not resolve into definitive forms, but remain open, shaped by how they are seen, and by the ongoing tension between organic change and material permanence.