The droste-effect will be on display in Francesco Clemente’s first major exhibition in Australia titled ‘Encampment’.
The prolific and admired Italian artist creates a world within a world using six over-sized Bedouin-style tents with internal walls painted to recall psychedelic dream-like frescoes with the artist’s signature iconography of angels, geometric flourishes and narrative scenes that trace pleasures of the flesh and the arcane.
The cavernous rainbow spaces were created in collaboration with artists in Rajasthan, India, an ongoing home of inspiration. Clemente offers an opportunity for intellectual and spiritual decadence.
Carriageworks
Until 9 October, 2016
Sydney
Francesco Clemente in Angels’ Tent, 2013
Photograph: Neil Greentree
Courtesy the artist
Francesco Clemente, Taking Refuge (Exterior View) at Blainǀsouthern Gallery, Berlin, 2013
Courtesy of the artist and Blainǀsouthern Gallery, Berlin
