| Materials |
Tempera and oil on linen |
| Height: | cm. 157.48 |
| Width: | cm. 208.28 |
Shipwreck with Spectator 1974-2004
30.05.09 | 12.10.09
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2009 |
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE
Tandoori Satori # 18
2004
Courtesy :
Collezione D'Ercole, Rome
The Tandoori Satori cycle is characterized by a dense, opaque and saturated chromatic matter that creates a texture unsuitable for descriptive goals or graphic virtuosities. The thick dividing line and the extreme stylization of the forms recall the street culture of 1980s New York and in particular the painting of Keith Haring [Reading, 1958 – New York, 1990]. Despite the apparent lack of commitment of the subject, the works of this cycle communicate complex suggestions and meanings, combining different and opposed motifs, such as the continuous curved line and the geometrical finiteness of the sheets of paper in Tandoori Satori # 25 (2004); or the heaviness of the anchor with the light aerodynamics of the balloons in Tandoori Satori # 18 (2004). Even the title of the series combines two words belonging to extremely different worlds: the cylindrical oven used in India to cook (tandoori) and the experience of “awakening” or “enlightenment” of Zen Buddhism. Enlightenment in this case stands for a deep understanding of reality, which consists – as Daisetz T. Suzuki explains in the introduction of the book Zen and archery (1975) – in «grasping the synthesis of affirmation and negation […] catching intuitively that being is becoming and becoming is being.»
[...] sitting in Madras at the Theosophical Society for several years, I was reading Indian authors who were familiar with the writings of Emerson, of Thoreau. So in India ...
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