Archive for July 30th, 2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Kehinde Wiley - The World Stage: Africa, Lagos - Dakar
Here’s a peak from Kehinde Wiley’s current exhibit at the Studio Museum In Harlem, where his latest monolithic paintings from the World Stage series are on view. For this body of work, Wiley situated himself in the both Lagos, Nigeria and Darkur, Senegal. Here, he found his models and invited them to pose in positions reflecting local statues and monuments from the African-European colonial period. This is not the first time the Studio Museum has welcomed Wiley. In fact, it was during his 2001 tenure as artist in residence that Wiley first experimented with having his subjects (then picked off the streets of New York) take on historical poses present in classical European portraiture. On view till October 26, 2009, free on Target Free Sundays. More after the jump, click pics for larger images.