Tandoori Satori Nr. 15, 2004

About the Work

Outstretched hands and feet, but without arms and legs, grow out of the oval and are mirrored by it. The head is doubled too: one is turned towards the external, the other towards the internal world. The title ‘Tandoori Satori No. 15’ playfully combines the Indian dish with the Japanese term for enlightenment. As a representative of the Italian Transavangardia, Francesco Clemente merges symbols and styles of various cultures and eras to create a poetic pictorial language, a counterpart of expressive subjectivity to the rational approach of Minimal and Conceptual Art.