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Francesco Clemente
(
Italian
, born 1952)
Francesco Clemente
Riconciliazione (from the portfolio "For Joseph Beuys"),
1986
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Timeline
1952
Born in Naples, Italy
1970
Enrolled as an architecture student at the Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
1971
Had his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Valle Giulia
1972
Met Alighiero e Boetti in Rome
1980
Participated in the Venice Biennale
1981 - 1982
Created The Fourteen Stations, a series of twelve large oils
1981
Studied Sanskrit
1984
Collaborated with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol on a group of works
2002
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Lives and works in New York, NY; Rome, Italy; and Madras, India
Exhibitions
2019
Francesco Clemente, Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates, Dallas Contemporary, US (solo)
2018
Francesco Clemente: 1978-2018, Brant Foundation, Connecticut, US (solo)
Francesco Clemente: Napoli è, Casamadre Gallery, Naples, IT (solo)
Francesco Clemente: After Garcia Lorca in New York, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, IT (solo)
Black Light, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, ES
2017
The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808-2017, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano) Lugano, CH
Everything we do is music, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Francesco Clemente: Standing with Truth, Villa Rufolo, Ravello Festival, IT (solo)
Francesco Clemente: Alba, Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, ES (solo)
Francesco Clemente: After Omeros, Fergus McCaffrey, Saint-Barthélemy, FR (solo)
Winter Flowers and Tree of Life, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, IT Francesco Clemente, Spring Center for Arts, Beijing, CN (solo)
Encampment, Carriageworks, Melbourne, AU (solo)
Francesco Clemente, Springs Art Center, Beijing, CN (solo)
2016
Pirate Heart, Galerie Templon, Paris, FR (solo)
Francesco Clemente: After Omeros, Alba, IT (solo)
Francesco Clemente: Dormiveglia, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, US (solo)
Group Show, 12 Solos, Blain|Southern Berlin, DE
Francesco Clemente, JMM Gallery, Brussels, BE (solo)
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Saint-Barthélemy, FR (solo)
Encampment, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts, US (solo)
2015
Art Changsha, CN
Francesco Clemente, Art Changsha, CN (solo)
2014
Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, US (solo)
Francesco Clemente, Two Tents, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Francesco Clemente: India, Beloved, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St, Moritz, CH (solo)
Francesco Clemente, Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, IT (solo)
Diacore presents Ron Arad’s Last Train, Ron Arad Studio, London, UK
Francesco Clemente, “Clemente > Brazil > Yale”, Yale School of Art, 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, US (solo)
Francesco Clemente: Frontiera di immagini, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo, IT (solo)
Tents, Blain|Southern Berlin, DE (solo)
Francesco Clemente, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, CH (solo)
Francesco Clemente, The Chinese Shadows and Selected Watercolors, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, CN (solo)
2013
Francesco Clemente, Palazzo Sant'Elia, Palermo, IT (solo)
2012
Mandala for Crusoe, Blain|Southern, London, UK (solo)
Francesco Clemente, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, CN (solo)
Nostalgia/Utopia, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Emblems and Mountains: Recent Watercolors and Works on Paper, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, IT (solo)
Ménage à trois: Warhol, Basquiat, Clemente, Art & Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, DE
The Tarots (I Tarocchi), Uffizi Gallery, Florence, IT (solo)
Winter Women, Summer Self, Galeria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, IT Palimpsest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE (solo)
JK’s Walk, Galeria Javier Lopez - Mario Sequeira, Madrid, ES (solo)
Remembering Henry's Show, The Brandt Foundation, Connecticut, US
Eori, GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, IT
Papertails, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, US
The Naked Face, National Gallery of Victoria, AU
2011
Festival Der Tiere (An exhibition for children and adults), Essl Museum, Vienna, AT
Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Institut Valencia D'art Modern, ES
2010
“A Private Geography”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
2009
Shipwreck with Spectator 1974-2004, MADRE (Contemporary Art Museum Donnaregina), Naples, Italy
2008
Francesco Clemente and Ron Arad, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2007
Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Atlantic Avenue Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
“Portraits”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
2006
Chairs, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Self-Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, UK
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004
Happy Birthday, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Heddon Street, London, UK
Francesco Clemente: New Works, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Francesco Clemente, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Francesco Clemente: New Works: The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2003
Francesco Clemente: Paintings 2000-2003, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA; Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
The Book of the Sea, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Clemente in Taos, The Harwood Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
2001
Self Portraits, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Francesco Clemente: Painter's Wardrobe, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
1999 - 2000
Clemente, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
1999
Broken Women- Neue Pastelle, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Francesco Clemente: Opere su carta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Kustsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998
Portraits Obscured, Gagosian Gallery Madison Ave, New York, NY
Francisco Clemente: Three New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Francesco Clemente: Indian Watercolors, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Francesco Clemente: The Paintings of the Gate, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Francesco Clemente: Portraits, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Fifty One Days on Mount Abu, Anthony d'Offray Gallery, London, UK
Francesco Clemente: Anamorphosis, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Francesco Clemente, Galerie Daniel Temple, Paris, France
Francesco Clemente: New Works, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1995
Paintings & Watercolors, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Mothers of Hope, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Francesco Clemente: Frescoes and Pastels, Anthony d'Offray Gallery, London, UK
Francesco Clemente: Works from 1980 to 1990, Peter Blum, New York, NY
1994 - 2002
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national de l'art moderne, Paris, France
1994
Quentin Crisp meets Bunuel, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
The Black Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Testa Coda, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; Gagosian Gallery New York, NY
Francesco Clemente, Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente: Watercolors, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Works on Paper 1974-1983, Leccese Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1991
Francesco Clemente: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Francesco Clemente, Perry Rubenstein, New York, NY
Francesco Clemente: Recent Works, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Francesco Clemente, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
1990
Clemente/Pastels, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Clemente: Three Worlds, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Clemente: A Retrospective of the Prints 1980-1990, Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia, PA
Francesco Clemente - New Editions, Crown Point Press, New York, NY
Francesco Clemente: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, NY
Story of My Country, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Francesco Clemente, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Francesco Clemente/Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1987
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1986 - 1987
Francesco Clemente, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; The Temporary Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1985
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984
Galleriat, Lund, Sweden
1983
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente: The Fourteen Stations, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Germany; Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Anthony d'Offay and Gian Enzo Sperone, London, UK; Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
Francesco Clemente's Drawings, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Sperone Westwater and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Il Viaggiatore Napoletano, Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
1981
Sperone Westwater, Fischer, Germany
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Anthony d'Offay, London, UK
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente/Matrix 46, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
1980
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea de Milano, Milan, Italy
Art and Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mario Diancono, Rome, Italy
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1979
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Giuliana de Crescenzo,Rome, Italy
Lucia Amelio, Naples, Italy
Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
1977
Paolo Betti, Milan, Italy
1976
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara, Italy
Galerie Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1975
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Franco Toselli, Milan, Italy
1974
Galleria Area, Florence, Italy
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Public Collections
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art & Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France
Centro Cultural d'Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
El Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, US
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Literature
2017
Elio Schenini, ed., Exhibition Catalogue, Lugano, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano), Skira, On the paths of Enlightenment, The Myth of India in Western Culture 1808- 2017
2015
Francesco Clemente: Emblems of Transformation, with an essay by Kiran Desai, Blain|Southern, London, UK
2011
Jain Yotindra, Stella Kramrisch, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Salman Rushdie, Clemente.Made in India, Edizioni Charta, Milan, IT
2010
Dieter Buchhart, Sam Keller, ed., Basquiat. Riehen/ Basel, Beyeler Museum, CH
2009
In the South, with a short story by Salman Rushdie, Mondadori Electa, Naples, IT
Derek Walcott, Francesco Clemente: A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows, Deitch Projects, New York, US
2003
Rimanelli, David. Paintings 2000 - 2003. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2003
1999
Dennison, Lisa. Clemente. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1999
Eccher, Danilo. Clemente. Bologna, Italy: Umberto Allemandi & C, 1999
Katz, Vincent. Life is Paradise: The Portraits of Francesco Clemente. New York: PowerHouse Books, 1999