Kehinde Wiley

 
Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, Kehinde Wiley lives and works in New York. Examining issues of racial and sexual identity, his works create collisions where art history and street culture come face to face. The artist makes eroticised heroes of the invisible, those traditionally banished from representations of power. His work reinterprets the vocabulary of power and prestige, part politically-charged critique, part an avowed fascination with the luxury and bombast of Western symbols of male domination.

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Kehinde Wiley - A Maze of Power
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
currently out of stock
The series of portraits of African heads of state unveiled by Kehinde Wiley at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, an exploratory project around the representation of power on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.


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