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Francesco Clemente
ArtForum, Sept, 1999
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
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The problem with expressionism '80s-style - German, New York Neo, or Transavantgarde - is that the all-or-nothing bravado that it hinged on progressively looks like . . . well, kindness dictates we cut these macho dudes some slack. Of course Francesco Clemente was never mas macho, and with the epoch-claiming clamor all but a bad memory, chief curator Lisa Dennison's 200-work retrospective should afford pleasure enough to forgive the orientalism and the angst. Clemente is one of those "natural" talents (which I guess by now means simply that his pictorial inventiveness can be acknowledged pre any "judgments re: ends"). As for judgments re: ends? Decide yourself, when the artist's luxuriant, surreal inventions metamorphose their way up the Guggenheim spiral this fall. Oct. 8, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000.
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