Opening on March 20, LGDR & Wei is pleased to present Winter Flowers, Francesco Clemente’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Featuring fourteen new paintings, all completed in 2023, from the artist’s radiant series by the same name, this presentation meditates on resilience, presence, and pleasure.

Initiated in 2010, Clemente’s Winter Flowers series emerged from a collaboration with the artist’s wife of nearly five decades, the actress and choreographer Alba Primiceri. One winter, Alba brought an assortment of flowers to Clemente’s New York studio. Plucked from the city’s parks and gardens, these blooms had survived the cold. Inspired by their enduring beauty, Clemente embarked on a series of floral paintings using a carefully determined selection of plant and vegetable pigments. As they took form, the paintings’ relation to the winter season became consonant with the artist’s contemplation of old age. While the flower has been used in traditional vanitas paintings to represent impermanence and the inevitability of decay, Clemente depicts blossoms to celebrate the beauty that can be found in all stages of life.

Gallery address: 2 Ice House Street Central