The Italian-born artist Francesco Clemente reached the shores of New York in 1980. In those days the city was dirty and dangerous. Nightmare epidemics of crack use and HIV infection were on the horizon and a wealth gap was taking hold. Downtown, artists grew like weeds. Clemente met the painters David Salle and Julian Schnabel, and seemingly overnight the trio converged at Mary Boone Gallery. They spearheaded Neo-Expressionism, a movement that revived the unfashionable practice of figural representation and brought new energy into the art world. This exhibition in the Alps places these three luminary artists together once more. —Elena Clavarino