"Seed" by Francesco Clemente
Item Number: 44
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Kindly donated by Francisco Clemente Studio
Ink jet on paper print
22 3/4 x 18 inches
2009
Italian painter Francesco Clemente came to prominence in the mid-1970s with vivid paintings rife with erotic imagery of mutilated body parts, gesturing amorphous figures often depicted in rich colors, as well as a series of contorted self-portraits. Fascinated with Indian art and mysticism, his gouache paintings and pastel drawings are especially noted for their intense and arcane quasi-religious content that has grown increasingly surreal in his later works. Though large in scale, Clemente’s work often conveys an uncanny and unabashed intimacy. Involved in the revolt against formalism and the detached qualities of much Conceptual Art, Clemente has been compared to such painters as Georg Baselitz and David Salle.
Clemente often worked in large cycles or series, and in one such series, Francesco Clemente Pinxit (1981), he collaborated with Indian artists trained in miniature painting traditions on a series of 24 works that combined indigenous Indian imagery with more-contemporary subject matter. He also worked collaboratively with other artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol and worked with or created images to accompany the texts of modern poets such as Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Allen Ginsberg.
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