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Francesco ClementeGeography West1992
1992
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This is a fabulous etching from the "Geography" series of etchings, created in 1992.
Signed Lower Right in Pencil
Numbered Lower Left 29/60
Sheet Size: 28 x 25 inches
Framed Size: 34 x 30.5 inches
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:
Francesco Clemente was born in Naples, Italy, the only child born to prosperous parents. His father was a judge, and he recalls his upbringing as "solitary". A self-taught painter, he began making art at the age of eight and became involved with contemporary art in Rome in the late 1960s. In 1970 he moved to Rome to study architecture, then left school and spent much of the decade traveling in India and Afghanistan with friend and early mentor Alighiero Boetti, an artist associated with the Arte Povera movement and Alba Primicieri, whom he subsequently married. Much of his time in the 70s was spent studying the occult and a wide range of philosophies. Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys were also influences on him during those years. When he was very young, however, Clemente never aped the artists he admired, and he arrived at a relatively mature style when barely out of his teens. At the age of twenty he began to regularly exhibit in Europe and he had his first New York show in 1980.
Clemente has a prodigious talent. He wields a command of pictorial conventions that is altogether exceptional. Gifted with a facility of execution rare in his generation, Clemente has put his talent at the service of a metamorphic sensibility. In his work, the physiological and the dreamlike merge.
Clemente divides his time between New York, Madras and his native Italy. A sexual "commuter" as much as he is a geographic nomad, his confusion of sexual preference and sexual function are deliberate and complete. His wife, Alba, is a dark-haired strikingly dramatic woman who once acted with avant-garde theatre groups in Rome. They have four children. Alex Katz is a close friend; his is one of many watercolor portraits Clemente has been doing of people he likes.
Clemente's art is everywhere keyed to this awareness of fragility and metamorphosis. His chosen materials are at extremes of brittleness or fluidity. The surfaces of his oils are scrofulous; the contours of his ink drawings crackle and splinter; his watercolors bleed and the atomized pigments of his pastels on the page. Clemente is a compulsive worker who turns out a torrential river of art. Among the mediums he's mastered: drawing, painting, pastels, etching, photography, mosaic, sculpture and Indian miniatures
Sources include:
Robert Storr in Art in America, November 1987
Kristine McKenna, The Artist of Our Time, in the Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1990
Gargoyles, Goddesses and Faces in the Crowd by Paul Gardner, ARTnews, March 1985
Prints From the Alchemist's Laboratory by Don Hawthorne, ARTnews, Frebruary 1986
Realm of the Senses by Robert Storr in Art in America, November 1987
- Creator:Francesco Clemente (1952, Italian)
- Creation Year:1992
- Dimensions:Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Missouri, MO
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU74732480931
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