Francesco Clemente
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
Clemente's dramatic figural imagery was a major component in the revitalization of Italian art beginning in the 1980s. Working across different media, Clemente’s works revolve around the themes of sexuality and spirituality.
Clemente is greatly influenced by mysticism, traditional art and the culture of India.
Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 in Naples, Italy. He went to Rome to study architecture, where he met his friend and mentor Alighiero e Boetti and decided to focus on art instead.
Clemente is greatly influenced by mysticism, traditional art and the culture of India. His signature subjects are the human form, particularly women’s bodies; his own image; sexuality; myth and spirituality; non-Western symbols; and dreamlike visions. His 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. His work conveys an uncanny and...
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Bestiary 2020
Francesco Clemente 3.09 - 17.10.2020 Gallery - Brussels - BelgiumWe proudly present Francesco Clemente's second solo exhibition with our gallery. Bestiary 2020 is a group of fourteen paintings which Francesco Clemente created this year during lockdown, in days full...Read more -
Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley
Group show 1.08 - 3.09.2020 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium -
Francesco Clemente 8.09 - 12.11.2016 Gallery - Brussels - Belgium
In the Presence of the Artist Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present Francesco Clemente's body of work for the first time in Belgium, as we open of our...Read more
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Les peintures de Francesco Clemente pendant le confinement
Les Echos 26.11.2020Si on a assez d'expérience pour ne pas dire d'années, dans le monde de l'art on aura entendu parler de Francesco Clemente depuis la fin...Read more -
Lockdown: Francesco Clemente has reinvented himself in an extraordinary way
Judith Benhamou Reports 18.11.2020Judith Benhamou Reports - November 2020 A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art world, one will inevitably have...Read more -
Some of the world’s greatest artists photographed in lockdown by Maryam Eisler
LUX Magazine 12.5.2020Darius Sanai for LUX magazine LUX Contributing Editor and artist Maryam Eisler has been photographing some of the world’s greatest artists over FaceTime and WhatsApp...Read more -
Jean-Michel's studio was closer, across the street from mine
SALON 31.12.2018Peter Elfert for SALON Broadway – the most famous street in New York. The lift whisks us upstairs. To the studio where artists like Andy...Read more
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Figure clé de la transavantgarde italienne
Arts Libre 16.9.2016FIGURE CLÉ DE LA TRANSAVANTGARDE ITALIENNE dont il fut l’un des fondateurs en 1980, Francesco Clemente a très rapidement acquis une reconnaissance artistique internationale et...Read more -
Francesco Clemente at the Brussels Gallery Weekend: 'We're all women'
BRUZZ 8.9.2016The concept of Art on Paper is a selection of 25 galleries and 25 artists for a unique exhibition. It's not exaggerated, you can be...Read more
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FIAC 2021
Online Viewing Room 4 - 7.03.2021It's rendez-vous online! Discover a selection of historical and new works of the gallery’s most important and internationally acclaimed artists.Read more -
ARCO Madrid 2020
20.02 - 1.03.2020ARCOmadrid is the international meeting point for exchange between Europe and Latin America. The fair enjoys the distinction of having been the first fair in...Read more -
BRAFA 2020
26.01 - 2.02.2020The Brafa Art Fair, created in 1956, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, famous for the high quality fine art,...Read more -
TEFAF Maastricht 2019
16 - 24.03.2019Established in 1988, TEFAF is widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent fair of art and antiques. TEFAF champions the finest quality art from across the...Read more -
BRAFA 2019
26.01 - 3.02.2019The Brafa Art Fair, created in 1956, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, famous for the high quality fine art,...Read more -
Expo Chicago 2018
Justin Brice Guariglia - George Shaw 27 - 30.09.2018We are delighted to participate for the third consecutive year in EXPO Chicago! This year, you can find us both at Booth 120 and at...Read more -
Masterpiece London 2018
28.06 - 4.07.2018Masterpiece London is the unmissable art fair at which visitors can view and buy the finest works of art, design, furniture and jewellery - from...Read more -
ARCO Madrid 2018
21 - 25.02.2018ARCOmadrid is the international meeting point for exchange between Europe and Latin America. The fair enjoys the distinction of having been the first fair in...Read more -
BRAFA 2018
27.01 - 4.02.2018The Brafa Art Fair, created in 1956, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, famous for the high quality fine art,...Read more -
EXPO Chicago 2017
Ron Gorchov 13 - 17.09.2017We are delighted to participate for the second consecutive year in EXPO Chicago! This year, you can find us both at Booth 120 and at...Read more -
Art Brussels 2017
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TEFAF Maastricht 2017
10 - 19.03.2017 -
ARCO Madrid 2017
23 - 25.02.2017