Francesco Clemente: Palimpsest: Schirn Kunsthalle | Frankfurt, Germany

Francesco Clemente, who was born in Naples in 1952, has pioneered an extraordinary pictorial language that draws on a variety of timeless symbols, myths, cultures, and philosophies. Frequently charged with eroticism, his oeuvre also has a profound religious quality. The variety of mediums which he employs and the subject matter of his work is deeply informed by Clemente's nomadic artistic life. Since the 1970s he has continually travelled between Italy and India adding New York City to his preferred places of residency since 1980.