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Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 in Naples, Italy. He studied architecture at the Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza in Rome in 1970, before turning his focus towards art.
Clemente came to prominence in the late 1970s and cemented an international reputation with his participation in the 39th edition of the Venice Biennale in 1980.
Francesco Clemente (born 23 March ) is an Italian contemporary artist and book publisher.
He is most closely associated with the Transavanguardia movement in Italy and recognized as an influential figure of Neo-Expressionism in the United States. Clemente’s generation came of age amidst the politicization of Italy, where conceptual, artistic strategies and the dogmatism of Arte Povera prevailed.
Against this background, the artist chose to concentrate on painting as a model of inner reconciliation, exploring the contemplative and symbolic nature of the medium, and focusing on how the body can act as a threshold between the inner and outer self.
Surrounded by anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist activities in Rome, socia