Fendi celebrates the historical city of Rome by donating a public artwork to the city. The new site-specific artwork by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone - entitled Foglie di Pietra - can be found just outside of Palazzo Fendi on Largo Goldoni. Guests from all over the world flew in for the unveiling of  the sculpture, which consists of two bronze trees – 18 and 9 meter-tall respectively – interlacing their branches, while carrying a marble block weighing 11 tonnes within them. Aimed to establish a permanent bond between nature and culture, Penone also hopes to celebrate the romantic nostalgia of lost civilisations through his most complex work to-date.

 

 

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Photo 2 of 18 Foglie di Pietra
Photo 3 of 18 Silvia Venturini, Costanza Di Canossa
Photo 4 of 18 Defina Delettrez Fendi
Photo 5 of 18 Ilaria Venturini Fendi
Photo 6 of 18 Dina Penone, Giuseppe Penone
Photo 7 of 18 Elisabetta Beccari, Giuseppe Penone, Pepi Marchetti, Nicola De Martino
Photo 8 of 18 Fabrizio Plessi
Photo 9 of 18 Francesca Lo Schiavo, Dante Feretti
Photo 10 of 18 Guido Torlonia, a guest, Elisabetta Beccari
Photo 11 of 18 Giovanna Melandri
Photo 12 of 18 Giuseppe Penone, Michele Lupi
Photo 13 of 18 Giuseppi Tedesco, Anna Fendi, Venturini Fendi
Photo 14 of 18 Nico Vascellari, Delfina Delettrez Fendi
Photo 15 of 18 Parisi Presicce, Luca Bergamo
Photo 16 of 18 Pietro Valsecchi, Pietro Beccari
Photo 17 of 18 Sara Maino
Photo 18 of 18 Silvia Grilli