Francesco Clemente A

famous Italian
Contemporary Artist

Browse his Artwork, PAINTING,

dRAWING, and Exhibitions
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Marry Boone Gallery

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.

Recent Solo Shows-:

1. 2011
Francesco Clemente: Palimpsest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
Francesco Clemente: The Tarot, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
2. 2012
Nostalgia/Utopia, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Mandala for Crusoe, Blain/Southern, London, England.
3. 2013

 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.

Recent Group Shows-:

1. 2011
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection,
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio.
Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ackland Art
Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
The Influentials, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, NYC, NY.
2. 2012
Dont Be Shy, Dont Hold Back: The Logan Collection at SFMOMA, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
3. 2014
Imaginary Portraits/Prince Igor, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery
Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NYC, NY.

 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.

2. After Attars The Conference of the Birds II

One of the famous painting of Francesco Clemente After Attars The

Conference of the Birds II is made by Francesco in 2010 in thye
format of watercolor/paper.

3. Trungpa

Trungpa the famous Artwork done by Francesco Clemente in 2010

2011. This artwork is done in the format of mixed media/canvas.

4. Teorema

Teorema is a famous artwork made by Francesco Clemente in 2011.

This is one of the famous artwork of Francesco. This work is done in
the format of mixed media/linen.