Francesco Clemente
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Francesco Clemente (born in Naples in 1952) is an Italian painter. One of the most outstanding personalities of the contemporary art, his work shows both surrealist and expressionist references. He was self taught and studied architecture in 1970 at the university of Rome. He did some paintings in collaboration with Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980`s, that were not very well received by most of the critics. Since 1982, he has spent his time between Italy, New York and Madras in India, where he collaberates with local artists. With Raymond Foye he created the Hanuman Books series in 1986, a collecion of 48 miniature handmade books featuring American and European poets and philosophers, edited by George Scrivani and printed in Madras. His paintings are often exaggerated, particularly his portraits and he uses only 3 or 4 colours, with brown for shading.
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