Kehinde is so far one of my favorite artist, i just went agag when first meeting him.First of all , I ‘am more partial to artists whom through their work push us asking questions about the society we live in.For me its like a “creative” journalist spreading the truth so that people can understand what’s going on in their society thus stand for what they believe.Whe Nowadays Black males are perceived as “aggressive”, I found it compelling and fascinating that he engaged the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.By Applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, history, wealth and prestige to the subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, the subjects and stylistic references for his paintings are juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.
There’s also amazing video for his Fall’s 2008 exhibit on Vimeo.
