Roberts & Tilton Gallery
5801 Washington Blvd
323.549.0223
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Kehinde Wiley, Randerson Romualdo Cordeiro, 2008, Courtesy of Roberts & Tilton
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Opens Saturday Apr 4, 2009 (6–8pm)
Apr 4, 2009 – May 30, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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The artist lectures at the Getty Center on Thursday, April 2 (7pm). The event is free, but reservations are recommended.
For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter Kehinde Wiley focuses on the favela boys of Rio de Janeiro. Posing as iconic Brazilian national sculptures, with loud tropical flora as a backdrop, his subjects (painted in their own American-influenced street clothes) create powerful cultural commentary. While you try to decide whether the carioca in the painting is really giving you the eye, Wiley earns props for once again expressing history with a contemporary vocabulary.
