Space and its boundaries. Time related to the optical perception. Volumes, lines and colors. Projects and plans realized with perseverance and style. In the 1950s many artists concentrated on figurative art, and many of them transformed the latter into its informal form – into a concept, into a synthesis of lines. J.R. Soto made use of time, light and colors.

Clemente, a painter that is first of all a wizard. His prophetic crazed appearence or his Siberian reindeer jackets are not the only reason for this statement. He is in fact skilled and clairvoyant in his art, to a point of a fracture between the lucidity of reality and the indescribable material of dreams. Clemente is able to organize misterious nature of things and mimes the logic of the shadows through his patient artistic effort.

Black and White. Dichotomy, always. From the darkness let there be light.
Now, as then, we are surrounded by darkness. Existential, human. In literature, as in life, that what bleeds is black, noir, night.
The human condition is covered by a darkness of fear and awe. Injustice and impossibility. What remains is an exorcism that passes through the eyes and goes straight to the soul. There is no remedy for our new Middle Ages.
Art is the only way out. Unceasingly, the artist, creator of beauty, moves within the age-old question of shadow/light.