Francesco Clemente
Initiation, 2006
Oil on canvas
78 x 68 1/8 inches (198.1 x 173 cm)
© Francesco Clemente; Photo by Elon Schoenholz; Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery
NYC gallerist Vito Schnabel debuts an exhibition by painter Francesco Clemente in the 1938 Moderne-style building.
The old Santa Monica Post Office on Fifth Street, which closed in 2013, is now an art space.
For the coming months, New York-based gallerist Vito Schnabel will be presenting shows in the grand Depression-era structure, which has 15,000-square-feet of exhibition space. The 1938 Moderne-style building is currently owned by Alexander Dellal of U.K.-based Allied Commercial Exporters Ltd. (A.C.E.), which bought it in 2018 from David Ellison’s Skydance Media for $30 million.