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1. WATERCOLOR ANIMAL PORTRAIT PAINTER BUFFALO NY INSTALL
2. WATERCOLOR ANIMAL PORTRAIT PAINTER BUFFALO NY SERIES

Each of Clemente’s tents is an inhabitable painting, which may be entered and experienced in the way of a contemporary chapel.

WATERCOLOR ANIMAL PORTRAIT PAINTER BUFFALO NY INSTALL

In addition to the recent flag works, The Brant Foundation will install a 12-foot by 18-foot tent made in 2013, fabricated in India by local tentmakers, with the inside walls and ceiling painted by Clemente. In the second, a white flag rises from a sinking boat filled with hearts and surrounded by more boats carrying children’s toys, a Noah’s ark of innocence and love lost. In one, Clemente embraces the white flag as a symbol of surrender as it pierces a striking image of a heart being picked apart, or maybe being restored to its integrity, by a flock of sparrows.

WATERCOLOR ANIMAL PORTRAIT PAINTER BUFFALO NY SERIES

His most recent work includes a series of paintings on canvas (2015-16) featuring hearts and white flags, two of which are included in the exhibition. Rejecting a psychological reading of his self-portraits, Clemente sees them as a meditation on the Buddhist view of the self as “continuity of discontinuity.” Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018 will include Self Portrait with Bird (1980) alongside portraits of Clemente’s artist and poet friends. The artist has portrayed himself as an ageless presence, at times twisted in difficult and improbable positions, at others seated peacefully in contemplation. Throughout his life, Clemente has returned to the theme of self-portraiture.

The series comprises 18 watercolors on handmade paper, celebrating the permanence of female power Clemente witnessed in the Indian and Tantric traditions. The exhibition will also feature Clemente’s definitive series, The Red Book (1989), created during the artist’s time in Orissa during this period. One such series included in this exhibition is the Pondicherry Pastels (1979– 80), a group of 82 small works on paper depicting his daily life in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Fascinated by the local culture and craftsmanship, he learned from and worked together with Indian papermakers, miniature painters, and sign painters.ĭuring this time, Clemente created hundreds of works on paper in various sizes, and established his practice of working in series. The Italian-born artist educated himself in the library of the Theosophical Society in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, where he studied Sanskrit and became acquainted with Hindu and Buddhist literature.