 Mappa della Nonsforza, 1978 Gouache on paper, 152.4 x 135.9 cm Francesco Clemente Works 1978 - 1990 The show features many works made from 1977 to 1990 using a range of different techniques: for the most part pastels on paper from the first half of the 1980s, but also works in oil, gouache, charcoal. The artist's versatile use of different expressive media is directly connected to the kaleidoscope of cultures that coexist in his personality: born in Naples, he has led a mobile existence in Italy, India and the United States; between the polymorphic vitality of Indian culture and the New York "melting pot" he delves into the idea of the accidental nature of the world as creative force, maintaining a detachment with respect to subjects and materials that allows him to freely explore and express his experience of the world in painting and drawing. His works often evoke his own physical presence, his body seen as an instrument through which a relationship of osmosis is established between the creative Self and the rest of the world, the Other-than-Self: the artist is his own body through which, in a constant interplay of inner and outer, physical and psychic, relations are created among different cultures, histories, thoughts. Born in Naple sin 1952, the artist lives in New York. Francesco Clemente has shown his drawings and works on paper in many solo exhibitions all over the world, including: Neue National Galerie, Berlin (1984-85); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (1987-89); Museum of Art, Philadelphia (1990); Royal Academy of Arts, London (1991); Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994-95); Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (1999). A major retrospective has been held at the Guggenheim Museum of New York (1999-2000) and in Bilbao (2000). Exhibition: 18 January - 30 March 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 7 pm closed holidays Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. Via Pontaccio, 19 I-20121 Milano Telefon +39 (02) 8699 8170 Fax +39 (02) 7209 4052 E-Mail info@paolocurti.com www.paolocurti.com |
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