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LEILA HELLER GALLERY: Ik� Ud� - Style and Sympathies - 10 Oct 2013 to 9 Nov 2013 Current Exhibition |
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SARTORIAL ANARCHY #5, 2013
Pigment on satin paper 54 x 36.1 in / 137.2 x 91.7 cm |
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Style and Sympathies New Photography Works by Iké Udé October 10 – November 9, 2013 Opening reception: Thursday, October 10, 6 to 8 pm New York, New York (September 24, 2013). Leila Heller is pleased to announce Style and Sympathies, an exhibition of photographs by New York-based, Lagos, Nigeria-born artist Iké Udé, on view at Leila Heller Gallery, located at 568 West 25th Street, from October 10th to November 9th. Style and Sympathies includes a selection of self-portraits from Udé’s critically acclaimed Sartorial Anarchy series and, for the first time, the series will be broadly continued and presented. Udé’s distinctive portraits, which poeticize colors, sumptuous fabrics, and composition, transcend the traditional aesthetic of portraiture by adopting a post-modern twist. The portraits show a highly stylized world of color and improvisational virtuosity, in which the artist employs men’s fashion ensembles that have been culled from various historical times and geographies. At once a reference to and departure from Dandyism, Udé's Sartorial Anarchy series is essentially post-dandyism in its conceptual use of fashion/costume as an index of culture. Udé has been engaged with this body of work since 2010, when the first photographs of this series were presented in the exhibition, The Global Africa Project, at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York. Most recently, Udé has continued his Sartorial Anarchy series for the exhibition Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum. About Iké Udé With his ongoing photographic self-portraits, Sartorial Anarchy, wherein he is dressed in varied costumes across geography and time, Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. Conversant with the world of fashion and celebrity, Udé gives the aspects of performance and representation a new vitality, melding his own theatrical selves and multiple personae with his art. Like Andy Warhol, Udé plays with the ambiguities of the marketplace and art world, particularly in his notorious art, culture, and fashion magazine, aRUDE and style blog, theCHIC INDEX. His work is in the permanent collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art, and in many private collections; exhibited in solo and group exhibitions; reviewed in Art in America, New Yorker, Art Daily, L'UOMO Vogue, Flash Art, and the New York Times. His articles on fashion and art have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Vanity Fair included him on their International Best Dress List, in 2009 and in 2012. He lives and works in New York City. Leila Heller Gallery has gained widespread recognition for fostering the careers of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists working internationally across a multitude of disciplines and mediums though its cutting-edge exhibitions and programs. Established in 1984 as a pioneer in promoting contemporary Middle Eastern artists, the gallery’s mission is to explore current developments taking place in Middle Eastern art within a larger cultural and Art Historical context. This specialization has positioned the gallery well within the burgeoning Iranian, Turkish and Middle Eastern art markets. In addition, the gallery is also active in the American, European and Middle Eastern secondary art markets. |
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