Francesco Clemente: Between Citation and Satire (Unabridged‪)‬

Cv/VAR 155 presents a review by James Cahill of an exhibition by the renowned artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952), exploring his first show in London for seven years. The monograph includes a conversation recorded with the artist in which he discusses the new paintings, and the ideas which grounded their development. Clemente embodies a binding of different cultures: the Italian Renaissance, Eastern philosophy of Buddhism and the Mandala; formed in a life divided between New York and India.