Tuesday10 Apr 01:40 PM
Francesco Clemente + Eddie Stern Talk Yoga, India
“It's better to die following your own nature than to live in fear trying to fulfill someone else's nature.”
Francesco Clemente quoting the Bhagavad Gita in Namarupa.
“So it's really not East or West, it's really part of the human experience that you are given certain conditioning and a certain character and that you have to live with that, and make the best you can of it. That is why we love the Hindu tradition, because of all these paradoxes we are confronted with —on the one hand this image of immobility and original knowledge and original uncontaminated being that we carry within ourselves, and on the other hand the deepest human desire: the desire for a narrative. And interesting narratives imply conflict. A narrative without conflict is boring —this is why I get very diffident about presentations of yoga or contemplative practices as 'conflict free.' When I hear about peace I get mad, because there is no such thing as peace, there is always war. It's either war with the other, or war within. If you are wise, it's war within.”
Francesco Clemente speaking with Eddie Stern in the new Namarupa.
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Images:
- Due Porte, Francesco Clemente, 1982, Peter Blum Gallery. Link.
- South, Francesco Clemente, 1999, Lococo Fine Art Publisher. Link.
- Map of What Is Effortless, Francesco Clemente, 1978, Private collection. Link.
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