SERGE ALAIN NITEGEKA

It is about time to restart my blog. Let’s think about art and creation, not destruction and fear….

Recently I visited a great exhibition at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Don’t miss Configurations in Black, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by South Africa-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka (b.1983; Rwanda), on view until March 8th 2025. Deploying the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, Serge Alain Nitegeka reappropriates modernism’s formal preoccupations with color, line, and space.

Kyle Meyer: Interwoven

Don’t miss Kyle Meyer: Interwoven at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, Nov.1-Dec.8 2018

“Kyle Meyer has worked between eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually layered and complicated as they are visually lush and intricate. Portraits from his Interwoven series reflect an interest in infusing digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts and in giving voice to silenced members of the LGBT community, who are marginalized in eSwatini. Tension between the necessity of the individuals to hide their queerness for basic survival and their desire to express themselves openly inform both the subject and the means of fabricating Meyer’s unique works. Each piece from the Interwoven series is labor intensive, taking days or sometimes weeks to complete. Meyer photographs his subject wearing a head wrap traditionally worn by women using a vibrantly colored textile selected by each man. He then produces a large-scale print of the portrait and hand-shreds the photograph together with the fabric from the head wrap, weaving the strips into a complexly patterned, three-dimensional work. With the final portrait, Meyer presents each man’s individuality and beauty while using the fabric as a screen to protect his identity.” Press Release Yossi Milo Gallery

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The London Mastaba

"This magic force of how the Mastaba reacts to the sun and the light is always in some ways strange to the landscape and in some ways extremely attractive to the landscape," Christo

"I like what's real. I love the heat and air, wet and cold. I'm not very interested in the clinical space of the gallery," Christo 

"I am not a painter, a sculptor, nor an architect. I try to mix things. I'm talking to people who have not the slightest idea what art is, who are not interested in art. I enjoy that adventure," Christo

Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977). Wiley has gained acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men and women in contemporary culture. "Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives." Wiley's portrait of Obama is a perfect symbol of his unique and modern presidency.

Red Desert / Il Deserto Rosso

It would be hard to overstate Michelangelo Antonioni’s influence on postwar cinema, architecture and design, fashion, and literature, even on modern conceptions of the intellectual and the erotic. Antonioni (1912–2007), whose fascination with mediated reality only deepened over time, was a restless experimenter with composition, camera movement, cutting, and storytelling.

Antonioni’s first color film Red Desert is an audiovisual tour de force. Hope you could have the chance to see it. It is like Rothko in cinema....

John Evans / Time & Place

Don't miss John Evan's exhibition Time & Place at Gallery Henoch, on view until October 28th, 2017. Evans offers what seem to be requiems for less frantic, more easygoing times. His paintings are poetic and they bring pleasure to be observed. To quote Evans: " I visualize the world as a series of collages made of natural forms and concrete structures. In these paintings, I take apart each image and re-image the part". Enjoy!