Thursday, April 2, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300.
Painter Kehinde Wiley, one of the foremost young artists on the world stage, reveals the art historical roots of his work and discusses his current project creating monumental portraits of young black men in world cities from Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro.
About Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley hot-wires the studied attitudes and dramatic backdrops of Old Master portraits with a Day-Glo palette and a hip-hop sensibility, creating a radical artistic mash-up that has been praised as hip, provocative, and technically brilliant. By asking his subjects to assume poses found in historical paintings and sculpture, he transforms ordinary urban men into saints, kings, even Christ. Wiley blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, self-consciously celebrating and subverting the propaganda of self-aggrandisement in European art.
See Kehinde Wiley's Paintings
A show of Kehinde Wiley's recent work is on view April 4–May 30, 2009, at the Roberts and Tilton Gallery in Culver City.
Kehinde Wiley hot-wires the studied attitudes and dramatic backdrops of Old Master portraits with a Day-Glo palette and a hip-hop sensibility, creating a radical artistic mash-up that has been praised as hip, provocative, and technically brilliant. By asking his subjects to assume poses found in historical paintings and sculpture, he transforms ordinary urban men into saints, kings, even Christ. Wiley blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, self-consciously celebrating and subverting the propaganda of self-aggrandisement in European art.
See Kehinde Wiley's Paintings
A show of Kehinde Wiley's recent work is on view April 4–May 30, 2009, at the Roberts and Tilton Gallery in Culver City.
