Paris, 30 October 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).
Los Angeles artist, living and working in New York, Kehinde Wiley, is currently on show at the Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris 3rd district. He is famous for his very naturalist portraits of contemporary urban communities such as African Americans, African Brazilians, and Indians.
It is the first solo exhibition of this artist in Europe, while in the United States he is already considered one of the most promising artists of his generation. The show will take place from 27 October to 22 December 2012.
His project in the gallery was influenced by a trip from Morocco to Cameroon, where he had the opportunity of organising wild castings, and realising his paintings, full of ornaments and references to great classical works. Indeed these paintings reveal the influence of Tiziano, Gainsborough and even Ingres. Kehinde Wiley thus reinterprets the classical pictorial language, making it strikingly contemporary.
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