Francesco Clemente: India
Vito Schnabel Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with New York-based Italian and American artist Francesco Clemente, presenting a pair of parallel solo exhibitions in the United States and Switzerland. Debuting new paintings and frescoes, both shows will present boldly expressive, large-scale works that comprise a meditation upon the restless physical and spiritual journey that has shaped the course of the artist鈥檚 acclaimed four-decade career. Francesco Clemente: India will be on view at Vito Schnabel Projects, New York, from November 8, 2019 through January 17, 2020. Francesco Clemente: Clouds will be on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, from December 27, 2019 through February 2, 2020.
The exhibitions will highlight Clemente鈥檚 famed nomadism, which embraces divergent geographies and cultural climates, bridging East and West. The scope and power of the artist鈥檚 oeuvre are felt through his distinctive sense of color and his deeply personal visual lexicon, a figural language that subsumes eclectic narratives, rituals, ideas, and symbols inspired by his global wandering. Clemente鈥檚 work traverses time and recorded history to probe the mysteries, ecstasies, incongruities, and, ultimately, the gravitas of the human condition. In his quest to explore the metaphysics of spirituality, mysticism, identity, and the self, Clemente has created a body of work in a variety of mediums that is often charged with eroticism and intimacy, rich in references, and expansive in its openness to interpretation.
Opening at Vito Schnabel Projects in New York, the exhibition Francesco Clemente: India takes its name from the title of a new series of monumental canvases that continue Clemente鈥檚 lifelong dialogue with the cultural and artistic practices of India, where he maintains a home. The four paintings on view depict maps of the country鈥檚 geographic borders punctured with symbols that draw from the itinerant experiences of Clemente鈥檚 life, and from his passion for paradox and metamorphosis. Painted in a sensual palette of understated earthen hues, these compositions are accented with brushstrokes of brazen pink.
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Vito Schnabel Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with New York-based Italian and American artist Francesco Clemente, presenting a pair of parallel solo exhibitions in the United States and Switzerland. Debuting new paintings and frescoes, both shows will present boldly expressive, large-scale works that comprise a meditation upon the restless physical and spiritual journey that has shaped the course of the artist鈥檚 acclaimed four-decade career. Francesco Clemente: India will be on view at Vito Schnabel Projects, New York, from November 8, 2019 through January 17, 2020. Francesco Clemente: Clouds will be on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, from December 27, 2019 through February 2, 2020.
The exhibitions will highlight Clemente鈥檚 famed nomadism, which embraces divergent geographies and cultural climates, bridging East and West. The scope and power of the artist鈥檚 oeuvre are felt through his distinctive sense of color and his deeply personal visual lexicon, a figural language that subsumes eclectic narratives, rituals, ideas, and symbols inspired by his global wandering. Clemente鈥檚 work traverses time and recorded history to probe the mysteries, ecstasies, incongruities, and, ultimately, the gravitas of the human condition. In his quest to explore the metaphysics of spirituality, mysticism, identity, and the self, Clemente has created a body of work in a variety of mediums that is often charged with eroticism and intimacy, rich in references, and expansive in its openness to interpretation.
Opening at Vito Schnabel Projects in New York, the exhibition Francesco Clemente: India takes its name from the title of a new series of monumental canvases that continue Clemente鈥檚 lifelong dialogue with the cultural and artistic practices of India, where he maintains a home. The four paintings on view depict maps of the country鈥檚 geographic borders punctured with symbols that draw from the itinerant experiences of Clemente鈥檚 life, and from his passion for paradox and metamorphosis. Painted in a sensual palette of understated earthen hues, these compositions are accented with brushstrokes of brazen pink.
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Francesco Clemente, the Italian painter, has been deeply inspired by India since he first visited the country in 1973.
Flowers resembling marigolds form the ancient diamond shaped outline of a map of India, which marries with a background of dozens of skulls gazing at the map, all awash in soft pink.
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