Discover sculptor, photographer, graphic artist Francesco Clemente (1952-)

Qualifications: sculptor, photographer, graphic artist, painter, watercolorist, manufacturer of gouaches, pastelist, draftsperson

Nationality/school: Italian, American

Born: Naples 1952-03-23

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Basquiat, Jean Michel

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18 hits in RKDimages as artist
42 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator

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Biographical information

Education: autodidact

zie Saur; wel kortstondig studie architectuur aan de Universiteit van Rome

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Rome 1970 - 1981
kortstondige, niet afgemaakte studie architectuur aan de Universiteit van Rome; speciale interesse voor het werk van Frank Lloyd Wright; 1973: atelier in Trastevere
India 1973
Clemente zou nog geregeld in India terugkeren om daar te werken.
Afghanistan 1974
samen met zijn mentor en collega-kunstenaar Alighiero Boetti
Madras (India) 1977 - 1979
vervaardigde hier tekeningen, zijn eerste pastels en handgemaakte boeken
Japan
Californië (staat)
New York City 1981
Vanaf 1981 overwegend in New York, alwaar samenwerkend met Basquiat en Warholl. Ook zo nu en dan werkzaam in India. 1999-2000 retrospectief in het Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum en het Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (Spanje)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Boetti, Alighiero

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: architecture (genre), animal painting (genre), figure, nude figure, interior view, portrait, still life

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Transavantguardia

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 42 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Honnef 1992
Saur 1992- , vol. 19 (1998), p. 502-504
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 3, p. 701-702

G. Politi, 'Francesco Clemente. It was twenty years ago today', Flash Art, november-december 2002, p. 76-79
Ammann 2007 (zie RKDlibrary), p. 248-255
Honnef, K.: Contemporary Art, 1990, p. 225 (Z) (NFM)
Honnef, K.: Hedendaagse Kunst (1992) (NFM)
Fémininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art (tent.cat. Paris 1995) (NFM)

Informatie ontleend aan de beelddocumentatie Collectie Buitenland en aan de Collectie Persdocumentatie.
AKLONLINE (November 2017), as: Clemente, Francesco

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Creation date: 1992-05-15; Last modified date: 2022-06-02

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Francesco Clemente (1952-)

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