“Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” situates 26 paintings and bronzes by Wiley—a modern master of the portrait form—in an ancient pictorial tradition: the art of the fallen figure.
After George Clausen, 1916©️ 2022 Kehinde Wiley Courtesy of the artist and Templon, Paris – Brussels – New York. Photo: Ugo Carmeni.
Meanwhile, the characteristically massive scale of the work—two paintings on display, each dominated by a single, sprawling figure, are more than 25 feet wide—has its own story to tell. With his billboard-sized picture planes, Schmuckli observes, Wiley keenly interrogates the “absurd coexistence of structural racism and the capitalist exploitation of hip-hop culture,” long a point of bleak fascination for the artist.
Yet Wiley knows when to scale back, too. The biggest works in the show are countered by some of the smallest he’s done to date, including a suite of entombed bronzes “that invite a more contemplative form of address,” Schmuckli says. “This interplay of scale is something that you have to experience in the space…this sort of switching back and forth between the intimate and the monumental.
©️ 2022 Kehinde Wiley Courtesy of the artist and Templon, Paris – Brussels – New York. Photo: Ugo Carmeni.
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