Roberts Projects is pleased to present Tidal Wave of Colour, the newest body of work by artist Wangari Mathenge. This series, Mathenge’s first major solo show in the United States, is composed of nine paintings that range from the intimate to the immersive. The title takes its inspiration from civil rights icon Malcolm X, who used the phrase to capture the post-second World War zeitgeist of global revolution; between 1945 to 1955, ideas about liberation and independence permeated the world; and as a result, Africa, Asia, and Latin America revolted in pursuit of decolonization. On her journey to becoming an artist, Mathenge discovered that she herself was in the midst of her own revolution. In re-imagining herself throughout this new body of work, Mathenge reinterprets iconic works etched deep into art history and in reworking the familiarity of the canon, Mathenge leans into the transcendent elements of her artistic practice, reclaiming a quiet power that resounds.

L’irruption de l’artiste franco-libanaise Christine Safa sur la scène de l’art contemporain, en 2021 et 2022 a été très remarquée en France et à l’étranger. A 27 ans, elle rejoint la Galerie Lelong & Co. Elle y a vite trouvé une place prometteuse.

Les peintures de Christine Safa, avec leurs juxtapositions de couleurs et de formes, témoignent d’un souvenir lointain et nostalgique et visent à transmettre des sensations remémorées. L’artiste broie elle-même ses couleurs et prépare sa toile selon une alchimie précise, elle obtient ainsi une qualité de matité et de lumière qui n’appartient qu’à elle. Elle donne vie à des images indéfinissables et évanescentes, comme dans un rêve. Ainsi, d’une forme vue naît un mariage de formes révélant une montagne, un arbre, un horizon, auxquels se mêlent des fragments de figure humaine : un visage, une épaule, une silhouette.

Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue brings together a focused selection of work from a period of over forty years by two of today’s most important and influential photo-based artists.

Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems, both born in 1953, came of age during a period of dramatic change in the American social landscape. Since meeting at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1976, the two artists have been intellectual colleagues and companions. Over the following five decades, Bey and Weems have explored and addressed similar themes: race, class, representation, and systems of power, creating work that is grounded in specific African American events and realities while simultaneously speaking to a multitude of human conditions. This exhibition, for the first time, brings their work together to shed light on their unique trajectories and modes of presentation, and their shared consciousness and principles.

Humanisme, ironie et humour Une exposition réalisée et conçue par Tempora en étroite collaboration avec Magnum Photos et le Musée Maillol. Photographe américain d’origine européenne, Elliott Erwitt est à la fois un peintre de l’intime, photojournaliste, photographe publicitaire, réalisateur et portraitiste de personnalités comme Marilyn Monroe ou encore Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Alfred Hitchcock, Nikita Khrouchtchev,…

Simon Lee Gallery is proud to announce Crossroads, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Ghanaian artist, Serge Attukwei Clottey. For his inaugural exhibition with the gallery, the artist explores the relationship between his Ghanaian identity and Western culture, traversing the expanse of his multidisciplinary practice.