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6 unusual facts about Francesco Clemente

Bruno Bischofberger

In the 1980s, Bischofberger's gallery became known for showing works from the Italian, German, and American "Neo-Expressionist" painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, George Condo, and Jiri Georg Dokoupil; as well as showing Andy Warhol, Miquel Barceló, Peter Halley and Mike Bidlo.

In the 2000s Clemente showed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, at the Museo MADRE in Naples, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Uffizi Gallery in Florence and at Yale Museum of Art in 2013.

John Wieners

At the Guggenheim Museum in 1999, Wieners gave one of his last public readings, celebrating an exhibit by the painter Francesco Clemente.

Massimo D'Amico

But will the knowledge, (one of which, with Francesco Clemente made in a bar in Brooklyn) and long visits to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), then replace it very soon with the long sessions of sketches made in the subway, in the square of Union Square on the 14th Street, in the crowded streets of Manhattan and outlying stations and other underprivileged suburbs of New York, which will lead him to launch his personal style of painting.

Matthew Marks Gallery

The Matthew Marks Gallery had its first exhibition, Artists' Sketchbooks, in February 1991, including Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jackson Pollock, and Cy Twombly.

Tokion

While in New York, the magazine's focus shifted from Japanese-influenced content to street culture aesthetics and then to a more global arts magazine featuring interviews with recognized artists such as Lou Reed, Richard Prince, James Brown, Francesco Clemente, Roger Corman, Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons, while continuing to cover up-and-coming artists such as Harmony Korine, Miranda July, Cory Arcangel and Simone Shubuck.