Raphaël Barontini

Blue Léwoz is a new phase in the spectacular web of encounters artist Raphaël Barontini has been creating for several years. It is also the next step in an embodied reflection on Creolization as theorized by Édouard Glissant: that which is practiced in the belly of the plantation – the most iniquitous and sinister world that can be, this thing that is done nevertheless, [which] leaves the “being” flapping with a single wing. Because the “being” is destabilized by the diminution he carries within. He himself affects a consideration of...

Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Raphaël Barontini, The Night of the Purple Moon, marking the gallery’s inaugural presentation with the artist and his first solo gallery show in the United States. The gallery will be transformed into a Galerie des Illustres, an otherworldly environment with large scale portraits on canvas, cloaks, chaps and flags. Fictional heroes and historical reinterpretations embellish subjects from classical and canonical histories: from the Caribbean, Voodoo and magical deities, to function as a way for formerly enslaved humans to hold on...