Racial Tension and Sexual Identity, unfortunately, are still major issues even in our 21st century of the year 2012. Many had attempted to address them in music but it still doesn't seem to resolve the problems. Contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley might just hold the key brush to the solution with his The World Stage project since 2006. Unexpected collisions between art history and street culture, Wiley created Baroque portraits of urban black and brown boys he met through his journeys from Morocco to Cameroon and eroticized them in motifs and patterns that do not normally identity with his subjects. For this solo show in France, he sought out African cultures through the colonial history of France. The reinterpretations of the traditional vocabulary of power and prestige in a hyperbolic settings of these charismatic boys certainly makes this politically-charged and somehow ambiguous portraits compelling. If you are intrigued, make sure to check them out before December 24th, 2012.
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