In a new exhibition at Vito Schnabel Projects, the Italian painter explores India's shape on the map.
In the decades since, he has immersed himself in Hindu spiritualism as well as local pop culture, studied Sanskrit and incorporated techniques he learned directly from Indian miniaturists and Bollywood poster painters within his work. When he’s not in New York or Rome, he spends a portion of the year in Chennai or Varanasi.
Indian symbols and imagery—from the supernatural to the everyday—have long appeared in his dreamlike pieces. Now, with a new series on view atin New York City, Clemente pulls back further, exploring the country as a shape on a map, the distinctive outline of the nation taking up most of the canvases of four large scale oil paintings.
In each, Clemente renders his subject in washes of suffused pink, offsetting the tone with dusty blues, grays and browns. Detached from surrounding landmasses, the boundaries of the country act as a portal into an alternate universe, through which one can glimpse the glow of a hot sun, fish and seashells, or a sari-clad woman with gazing eyes.
One striking image pairs cheerful, Warhol-esque flowers with human skulls, a prevalent icon in both ancient Hindu and Buddhist art, in which deities are often shown wearing necklaces made of them.
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