Clemente's India experience

Kurzbeschreibung

DAS THEMA DES VORTRAGS WURDE GEÄNDERT UND ENTSPRICHT NICHT DIESER VORANKÜNDIGUNG.

Images of Alterity: Francesco Clemente in India In the entire body of Francesco Clemente's Work the locale is of utmost importance. A feeling of 'disquiet' in the atmosphere of 'dullness' and 'cultural hegemony of the West' had triggered Clemente's desire to be 'somewhere else', in an alternative space, quit in the early years of his career. In India, for the first time, he was astonished by the multiformity of its visual culture which "opened up an enormous range of expressive possibilities he had not known in Rome". The perpetual journeys between his proverbial Three Worlds, i.e. Rome, Madras, New York which began in the 1970s have continued till date, repeatedly drawing him to India over the last two decades, including prolonged stays of six months to a year of working there.
This paper will map Clemente's explorations of India's philosophies, rituals, iconographies and legends; its bazaars and places of pilgrimage; its mass-produced popular imagery and its proliferating traditions of crafts which served as constant sources of his inspiration - a sort of "mental backdrop for his work, much the same way that the drone exists as a background constant in Indian music (R. Foye).

KünstlerInnen / AutorInnen

• Jyotindra Jain, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Universität, Neu Dehli › Biografie [link 02]

Termin

• 18. Mai 2002

Veranstalter

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles und Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Veranstaltungsort

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Deutschland

Eingabe des Beitrags

, 22.05.2003

Kategorie

• Vortrag

Schlagworte

Ergänzungen zur Schlagwortliste

• Indien |
• Bildproduzenten |
• Francesco Clemente |
• visuelle Kultur |
• Bildproduktion