Templon (D12)
Everyone was drawn to the monumental work of the American portrait painter Kehinde Wiley, currently on view at Orsay and the Reiffers Foundation. Next to it, a painting by Michael Ray Charles questions where the African-American community stands in society from a completely different angle![CDATA[<0x2009>]]–![CDATA[<0x2009>]]that of provocation and questioning through the reappropriation of images. "We’ve never seen such a rush, such excitement around the ex-FIAC" says director of the gallery Anne-Claudie Coric, which put forward works by Charles ranging in price from 140,000 to 200,000 euros.
A.MoA Gentil Carioca (F10)
The Brazilian gallery’s solo show is sunny. Originally from one of Rio’s poorest favelas, Maxwell Alexandre is part of the first generation of black artists to study thanks to the introduction of quotas in Brazilian universities in the early 2000s. Exhibited earlier this year at the Palais de Tokyo and this winter at the Shed in New York, the artist’s work revolves around the word "pardo", which in Portuguese means both the colour of…
