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Article: Francesco Clemente talks to Brooks Adams. ('80s Then).(Interview)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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BROOKS ADAMS: Why do you think we're talking about the '80s now? Was it a heroic age?
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: [Laughs.] New York had an extraordinary texture at the time, when I first came from India in April of 1980. In India I was familiar with the word tantra, which means texture, weave. The city itself was this weave of diverse experiences.
BA: Who were the first painters you became friends with here?
FC: David Salle and Julian Schnabel.
BA: What affinity did you see with Salle?
FC: I was very fond of the early Salles, where you have just the monochrome canvas with the charcoal drawing and one other element of disturbance. I ...