The figure, inner life and the artist’s book
Francesco Clemente works across painting, drawing and books, returning to the body and the shifting relationship between inner experience and the surrounding world. His time in India and his collaborations with poets form part of a practice that welcomes different materials and traditions.
The Pondicherry Pastels brings images made in 1980 into an elaborate artist’s book published in 1986. Its plates, handmade papers and embossed copper-colored cover make the publication a designed object as well as a sequence of reproduced images.
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Further reading
National Gallery of Victoria: The Pondicherry Pastels
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