The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is pleased to announce a survey of works by Francesco Clemente, on view from November 12, 2018 through March 2019. The exhibition brings together a concise but comprehensive selection spanning 40 years of the artist’s work including self-portraits and portraits, works on paper, frescoes, monumental oil and watercolor paintings, and one of the artist’s notable hand painted tents. Executed in Rome, New York, Taos, Varanasi, Jodhpur, Orissa, Pondicherry, and Madras, the works have traveled far and been dispersed among museum collections and art patrons. They now come together for Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018, each with its own story to tell. Non-chronological in nature, the exhibition interweaves threads that have been a constant in Clemente’s long-spanning oeuvre, and presents ideas and questions that persist throughout his various transformations in medium.
“Ideas divide, forms unite. In the search for form painters encounter beauty. If they are lucky,” says Clemente.
Francesco Clemente is a contemporary artist known for exploring metaphysical questions of spirituality, mysticism, and the nature of the self. Often erotic, and at times violent in its subject matter, Clemente’s lyrical, emotional approach is expressed by his unique sense of color. Strongly influenced by literature and poetry, Clemente is a poet in his own right, with a vast lexicon of symbolic and metaphorical imagery that expands and transforms to tell an open-ended story.
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Winter Tour Dates: December-February
December 17th @11am
December 20th @1pm
December 21st @12pm
December 27th @11am
December 28th @2pm
January 2nd @12pm
January 3rd @2pm
January 4th @11am
January 8th @10am
January 10th @1pm
January 11th @11am
January 15th @1pm
January 16th @10am
January 18th @2pm
January 23rd @2pm
January 25th @11am
January 29th @10am
January 31st @1:30pm
February 1st @12pm
February 5th @10am
February 6th @2pm
February 8th @2: 30pm
February 12th @11am
February 13th @2pm
February 15th @12pm
February 19th @10am
February 21st @12:30pm
February 22nd @3pm
February 26th @11am
February 27th @11am
Yoga
Led by Kaia Yoga Studio’s Susan Layden, participants will have the opportunity to explore the current exhibition before the session begins.
6-7 PM
January 3, 2019
January 17, 2019
January 31, 2019
Yoga sessions are $10 per person-admission is free for students with a valid ID and children under the age of 18
Participants must bring their own mats
Open to all levels of experience
Evening Hours
The Brant Foundation invites you to join our open house evening hours on select dates listed below.
5-7 PM
December 20, 2018
January 10, 2019
January 24, 2019
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is open to the public and free of charge. Please contact info@brantfoundation.org to make a reservation to attend open house hours. If you are interested in a docent-led tour, please visit the exhibition page for a complete list of tour dates and time
