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Biography - :
Francesco Clemente [born in Naples (Italy) March 23, 1952] is an Italian contemporary
artist. His work is influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William
Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti. Dividing his time between New York
and Varanasi, India, Clemente has adopted for his paintings a vast variety of supports
and mediums, exploring, discarding, and returning to oil paint, watercolor, pastel, and
printmaking. His work develops in a non-linear mode, expanding and contracting in a
fragmentary way, not defined by a style, but rather by his recording of the fluctuations
of the self.
Clemente's work spans four decades. His work is stylistically varied, inclusive, erotic,
and nomadic. It embraces diverse mediums and diverse cultures as well, aiming at
finding wholeness through fragmentation and witnessing the survival of contemplation
and pleasure in our mechanical age.
Clemente's work is rooted in political utopia and expresses an anti-materialistic stance.
In the 1970s he moved from photography to drawing and anticipated the return to
painting of the 1980s.
Clemente > Brazil > Yale, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
Francesco Clemente: Portraits of the 1980s, Thomas Ammann Fine Art,
Zurich, Switzerland.
Francesco Clemente: Tents, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany.
4. 2014
Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC, NY.
Two Tents, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
5. 2015
Emblems of Transformation, Blain/Southern, London, England.
Francesco Clemente: Encampment, MASS MoCA, North Adams,
Massachusetts.
Urban Theater: New York in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, Texas.
4. 2015
Artists for the Met, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met,
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NYC, NY.
Dont Shoot the Painter, Galleria dArte Moderna, Villa Reale, Milan, Italy.
Art Work-:
1. Portrait of Bill Gellatly and Margaret Gellatly
Portrait of Bill Gellatly and Margaret Gellatly made by Francesco Clemente in 2007.
This famous portrait is made in the format of oil/canvas.
3. Trungpa
4. Teorema