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Titre conventionnel : [Exposition. Londres, National Gallery. 2021/2022]
Titre(s) : Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery [Texte imprimé] : the prelude : [Exhibition, The National Gallery, London, December 10, 2021-April 18, 2022] / Christine Riding with contributions by Sarah Thomas, Zoé Whitley and Kehinde Wiley
Publication : London : National Gallery Company ; [New Haven, Connecticut] : Yale University Press,
2021
Description matérielle : 112 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Published to accompany the exhibition held at The National Gallery, London, December
10, 2021-April 18, 2022. - Includes bibliographical references
The American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) is best known for his spectacular portraits
of African Americans with knowing references to the grand European tradition of painting.
He was commissioned in 2017 to paint Barack Obama, becoming the first Black artist
to paint an official portrait of a president of the United States. His work makes
reference to old master paintings by positioning contemporary Black sitters in the
pose of the original historical figures, raising issues of power and identity, and
the absence or relegation of Black and minority-ethnic figures within European art.
For his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, Wiley will depart from portraiture
to explore the European landscape tradition through the medium of film and painting,
casting Black Londoners from the streets of Soho. His new works will explore European
Romanticism and its focus on epic scenes of oceans and mountains, drawing inspiration
from the National Gallery's masterpieces in landscape and seascape. -- publisher's
statement
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Riding, Christine
Thomas, Sarah (1965-....)
Whitley, Zoe
Sujet(s) : Wiley, Kehinde (1977-....)
Genre ou forme : Catalogues d'exposition
Indice(s) Dewey :
759.13 (23e éd.) = Peinture - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781857096774. - ISBN 1857096770 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb469641339
Notice n° :
FRBNF46964133
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / Gabriele Finaldi ; Kehinde Wiley: A prelude / Christine Riding ; Overcoming
the body / Zoé Whitley interviews Kehinde Wiley ; The nature of our looking / Christine
Riding ; The dark side of the landscape: Kehinde Wiley and the Black sublime / Sarah
Thomas ; Notes ; Catalogue ; Kehinde Wiley: Selected Chronology.