Francesco Clemente

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Francesco Clemente
Black-and-white photograph of an elderly man with grey-stubbled chin
Portrait by Michael Avedon, 2011
Born (1952-03-23) 23 March 1952 (age 72)
Naples, Italy
EducationArchitecture (University of Rome)
Known forPainting, drawing
Websitefrancescoclemente.net
Cover of Francesco Clemente Pinxit, artist's book, 1981
With self-portrait, San Francisco, 1991

Francesco Clemente (born 23 March 1952) is an Italian

Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, which was characterised by a rejection of Formalism and conceptual art and a return to figurative art and Symbolism.[3]

Life

Clemente was born in 1952 in

Arte povera movement, and his interest in others such as Pino Pascali and Michelangelo Pistoletto, Clemente preferred to work on paper. He made ink drawings of dreams and recollections of his childhood, and in 1971, in his first solo show, exhibited collages at the Galleria Giulia in Rome.[1]

In 1973 Clemente made the first of many visits to India.

rag paper, in collaboration with miniature painters from Orissa and Jaipur.[1][3][7]: 88  In 1982 he moved to New York City.[8]. He lives in Greenwich Village.[9]

Paper tent at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi, in Kerala, India, 2014

Work

Clemente (right) with Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Bruno Bischofberger in 1984

Clemente's work has been widely shown. His early large canvases, painted in 1981–1982, were exhibited in 1983 at the

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in Naples in 2002–2003; at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2004; at Palazzo Sant'Elia in Palermo, in Sicily, in 2013; at both the Coro della Maddalena in Alba and Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in 2016; and at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2017.[2][3]

In 1998 his work was used in the film Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.[3]

Art market

The highest selling painting by the artist was The Fourteen Stations, No. XI (1981-1982) who sold by $1,860,000 at Christie's New York, at 9 May 2022.[11]

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e f [s.n.] (2012). Clemente, Francesco. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed April 2017. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d Clemènte, Francesco (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Francesco Clemente. Guggenheim. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Accessed March 2017.
  4. ^ Alex Bacon (3 May 2013). Francesco Clemente in Conversation with Alex Bacon. Brooklyn Rail.
  5. ^ Francesco Clemente (2012). TateShots: Francesco Clemente on Alighiero Boetti. London: Tate. Accessed April 2017.
  6. ^ Matthew Gale ([n.d.]). Ontani, Luigi. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed April 2017. (subscription required)
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  8. ^ Kay Larson (19 November 1990). On The Line. New York. ISSN 0028-7369.
  9. ^ Kurutz, Steven. "What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden", The New York Times, 28 September 2016. Accessed 3 November 2016. "The house is part of the Macdougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District, a landmarked community of 21 row homes, with 11 lining Macdougal Street and 10 running parallel on Sullivan Street."
  10. ^ Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Archived 30 March 2011.
  11. ^ Art.Salon

Further reading

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