Art world links which caught my eye...
Francesco Clemente "The Fourteen Stations, No. II" Oil and wax on linen 79" x 88" (1981-1982)
Italian artist Francesco Clemente (b. March 23, 1952) was considered a hot contemporary painter while I was in art school in the late 80's-early 90's. This 2020 advertisement/article by auction house Christie's tells his story.
"The writer Salman Rushdie situates Clemente in the tradition of self-portraiture as an eternal shape-shifter: 'Clemente is a metamorph par excellence — actor, clown, mask, avatar — and, as slippery as the legendary Old Man of the Sea, he wriggles hard when you try to pin him down. You have to hold on tightly, and for a long time, while he mutates ceaselessly to elude your grasp…'"
Francesco Clemente "The Fourteen Stations, No. XII" Oil and wax on linen 78" x 93" (1981-1982)
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