Mind Dance

Material

Oil and pigment on canvas; 559.0 x 121.0 cm

Dating

1990

About the artwork

Francesco Clemente, 2016, in an interview with Elena Cue:
«My paintings are enigmatic, life is enigmatic. Everything is an enigma, everything is a mystery. There’s a beautiful quote in a de Chirico painting that says in Latin: Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? (And what shall I love, if not the enigma?). My paintings are tied to the changes in my life and they’re tied to a sense of synchronicity. I’m a believer in synchronicity. You know, the simplest example of synchronicity is when you think of someone and then you turn the corner and you see that person. I am very much in touch with that kind of resonance and symmetry in life, where things don’t happen on their own, they happen in clusters. They all bounce against each other. I’m a listener… I listen to the harmony of life and I translate that in my paintings.»

About the artist

The Italian painter, graphic designer and sculptor is one of the primary representatives of the Italian Transavanguardia, an artistic movement which abandoned conceptual precision and turned to the richness of traditional media. With his drawings, paintings and murals he has created a richly coloured world of images which circles around the sensual experience of the world. Clemente belongs to those artists who focus on contradictory and absurd things in life by expressing their own desires, dreams and associations in imagined pictorial compositions. In these processes the fragmented body plays an important role.