MUNICH.- Francesco Clemente’s works “Sound and Shadow, I–III”, the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation’s most recent acquisitions, were painted in 2002 in New Mexico and depict a desert landscape in vastly changing moods – possibly an allusion to different times of day. The central motif that dominates the composition is modified slightly and can be interpreted as a loose combination of huge and abnormally shaped hands and feet. The body and head, where sensuousness and emotion are located, have – in proportion – been reduced to a minimum. The posture and gesture of the grotesquely distorted figure can either be seen as those of someone kneeling and worshipping, clasping and squeezing, or crawling and running. The conception of the world and of the natural are more