Francesco Clemente, Clemente (Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing), 1998

Francesco Clemente

Clemente (Hand Signed by Francesco Clemente and inscribed with a small drawing), 1998

Large Illustrated Softback Exhibition Catalogue. (Hand signed and inscribed to Richard Gombar by Francesco Clemente with a drawing flourish)

Hand signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page.

11 7/10 × 10 × 2 inches

Unframed

This beautiful, large and comprehensive softcover monograph with stiff wraps is hand signed and inscribed by the artist, Francesco Clemente to American artist Richard Gombar, and was published on the occasion of the exhibition, "Clemente", at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York in 2000. The text of this book is by Lisa Dennison, Craig Houser, Robert Creeley, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jyotindra Jain, Gus Van Sant, Francesco Pellizzi, Raymond Foye, Rene Richard, and Melanie Marino. This catalogue offers a full career retrospective, illustrated with works spanning all mediums the artist has explored throughout his career. This book contains 502 pages with numerous full color illustrations. Especially uncommon when hand signed and inscribed - as is the present work. With a drawing flourish. Makes a terrific gift.

About Francesco Clemente:
Francesco Clemente was born in Naples, Italy, in 1952. After an early academic background in classical languages and literature, he briefly enrolled as an architecture student at the University of Rome, in 1970. Throughout the 1970s he exhibited drawings, altered photographs and conceptual works across Europe. Since 1973 he has frequently resided and worked in India. In 1981 Clemente moved to New York City, where he currently lives with his wife and children. The artist has often engaged in collaborations, both in India with local craftsmen, and in New York with artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, among others. He has published many works in conjunction with poets, including John Wieners, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Rene Ricard. Clemente's work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including traveling retrospectives of his pastels (Nationalgalerie, Berlin: 1984–85) and drawings (Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel: 1987–89). His works on paper were the focus of a full retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1990, which traveled within the United States and to the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1991). His works on paper have been shown in exhibitions organized by the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994–95) and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (1999). The artist's comprehensive oeuvre was the subject of a retrospective exhibition, Clemente, mounted by the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999–2000), which traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2000). Most recently, a survey of the artist's work was organized by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (2002–03).

Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery