Francesco Clemente Contemplates His Humanity at Vito Schnabel’s New Santa Monica Outpost

Francesco Clemente’s anthological survey show, Twenty Years of Painting: 2001 – 2021, cogitates on a shifting understanding of the world and human consciousness. Presented as Vito Schnabel Gallery’s first exhibition at its Old Santa Monica Post Office location, Clemente’s work grapples with his own mortality through a deep contemplation of physical existence. Encompassing portraiture, symbolic, landscape and figurative motifs, he ruminates on the ephemerality of life by addressing the incorruptibility of time’s momentary truth.