NEW YORK.- The exhibition Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing opens today at the Drawing Center in New York, on view until March 6, 2004. The exhibition includes 12 large-scale drawings and a selection of sketches made between 1968 and 2002.  This will be the first New York solo museum exhibition of the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone, whose work is associated with Arte Povera. The exhibition’s curator is Catherine de Zegher. Penone’s drawings magnify the delicate sensory surfaces of the skin to landscape-like proportions, reflecting upon the body’s relationship to physical space. His work refers to both the visual and tactile, creating formal and conceptual connections between drawing and sculpture. The Imprint of Drawing will travel to the Milton Keynes Gallery, U.K. Also on view at the Drawing Center is the exhibition "Helena Almeida: Inhabited Drawings," from January 23 to March 6, 2004.