Il cerchio di Milarepa, 1982

A natural nomadic inclination led Francesco Clemente from his birthplace, Naples, to live and work in Rome, Madras, and New York, alternating stays in these cities with numerous journeys. Accordingly, the artist uses multiple techniques, including drawing in pen or ink, oil painting, miniatures, fresco, and watercolor. Since the 1980s, his interest in the figurative and his close relationship with numerous local cultural traditions related with the place where he finds himself working have made Clemente one of the principal exponents of the Transavanguardia movement. [...]