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Press Release With this Clemente exhibition, the Goldman Warehouse embarks on its independent exhibition program. The Clemente exhibition is presented in partnership with Deitch Projects. … (read more)

Press Release

With this Clemente exhibition, the Goldman Warehouse embarks on its independent exhibition program. The Clemente exhibition is presented in partnership with Deitch Projects.

Francesco Clemente spent more then a year creating A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows, a remarkable 180 foot long suite of large scale watercolor paintings. The work continues the artist's ongoing project of transforming spiritual life experience into art.

For Clemente, the rainbow is a bridge, a structure to bring things together, like religion in its original sense. The rainbow represents the necessity to connect different worlds. The translucence of the rainbow connects with the translucence of watercolor. The rainbow unmasks the nature of light and watercolor brings the light out of paper. In watercolor, the artist does not build the highlights – they are the parts the artist does not touch. The light is behind the paint.

A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows was first exhibited at Deitch Projects in New York in May 2009.

Courtesy of Deitch Projects

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