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A report by Lauren Collins for The New Yorker. Our thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. The first time the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang encountered “L’histoire en Peinture de l’Assemblée Nationale,” a large painting hanging in the National Assembly in Paris, she was “prise aux tripes” grabbed by the guts. It…
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Kenny Scharf opens his second solo show at Almine Rech
Installation view.
PARIS
.- Due to the pandemic, Kenny Scharf was not present for his second solo show at Almine Rech. However, as he continued to produce art in his Los Angeles studio in the middle of December, he said he was happy with the freshness of his new paintings. It s always very exciting for me to show work thats so recent, and even though I cant be there, the viewers will see how new it is, he said. Since the early 1980s, Kenny Scharf has been extremely productive and loves working on his art. Without thinking of subject matter ahead of time or restricted narrations, he develops a vocabulary that combines the influence of 1960s cartoons particularly the Flintstones and the Jetsons and psychedelic shapes resembling cells, bacteria, or even viruses (an interpretation that seems especially apt at the current time). During his first show at Almine Rech, which took place in September and October 2020 in N