Il Picasso Museum di Paris pays tribute with a retrospective to Faith Ringgold, iconic figure, committed American artist and feminist. The exhibition "Faith Ringgold. Black is beautiful” can be visited until the 2 July 2023. Over the course of his career, the artist has developed a long body of work that draws on the rich heritage from the Harlem Renaissance to the current art of young black American artists who are also committed to civil rights. The artist conducts – through his reinterpretations of the history of modern art – a real plastic and critical dialogue with the Parisian scene of the early XNUMXth century, in particular with Picasso and his “Demoiselles d'Avignon”.
Faith Ringgold's Walk Against Racism
Una important figure in American art committed and feminist, since the struggles for civil rights to those of the movement Black Lives Matter, author of popular works of children's literature, Faith Ringgold has developed a work that connects the rich heritage of the Harlem Renaissance to the current African American artist stage. Through your proofreading of the history of modern art, you conduct a plastic and critical dialogue with the art of the early twentieth century, in particular with Pablo Picasso and his Demoiselles d'Avignon. Born in New York in 1930, she grew up in Harlem, a neighborhood in northern Manhattan, which became, in the interwar period, the symbolic capital of the cultural awakening of black communities, encouraged in particular by the book The New Negro (1925) by writer and philosopher Alain Locke. Since her first work, in the early 60s, Faith Ringgold has witnessed the relations of conflicting interracial communities in the United States and worked to create African-American art with an identity of its own. She continues to transpose her revolutionary Black Power vision into an unprecedented approach to color theory and techniques, through a biography close to autofiction. Combining modernity and vernacular traditions, texts and images, she develops an original art of performance and textiles. Her radical and popular work, especially brought to the fore at the time of the new presentation of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, is today one of the founders of many artists.
Ringgold at the Picasso Museum: it is his first retrospective in France
The exhibition received support from the New Museum in New York, the ACA gallery and the Ford Foundation. In 1963, the year of the Civil Rights Act that legally ended all forms of segregation or discrimination, Faith Ringgold took a long way to normal series about racism, American People. In 1967, as tension mounts, she paints with a dark palette and subtle paintings called Black Light (Black Light). She celebrates the newly recognized Afro beauty, especially through the slogan "Black is beautiful". This series of twelve monochrome paintings playing with the codes of abstraction will be shown in January 1970, during her second one-man show at the Spectrum Gallery in New York. At the same time, the artist engages in the Black Power movement by creating militant manifestos from typographic compositions
Who is Faith Ringgold? Here is his biography
Born in New York in 1930Faith Ringgold grew up in Harlem, a northern borough of Manhattan that became, in the interwar period, the symbolic capital of the cultural awakening of black communities, encouraged in particular by the book The New Negro (1925) by writer and philosopher Alain Locke. She spent it
childhood in a thriving community of creators, musicians, writers and thinkers. She continued to live and work there as well as an artist and public school teacher for decades.
Here his artistic, cultural and family commitments were formed. The artist's entire career bears witness to his research and creation of him specific singular forms of the radical exploration of sexual and racial identity. This exhibition is the first in France to bring together a group of Faith Ringgold's major works. Extends the retrospective that the New Museum dedicated to early 2022 and is organized in collaboration with this New York institution.
FAITH RING GOLD – Until July 2, 2023 – #PicassoRinggold – Black is beautiful
Musée National Picasso-Paris, Rue de Thorigny, 2 – 75003 Paris
