Lévy Gorvy Dayan will present Francesco Clemente’s Self-Portraits in the Bardo­—a significant series from his recent practice on view for the first time. Here, in eight vivid and visionary canvases, the artist fuses self-portraiture with an exploration of imagery found in traditional Tibetan Buddhist representations of the bardo. The bardo is a central concept in Tibetan Buddhism, describing a liminal state of consciousness associated with the moment between death and rebirth. On each canvas, Clemente creates a contrast between his grisaille self-portrait in the foregr...