Khaled Takreti. Libertés – Peintures 2007-2022.

Khaled Takreti. Libertés – Peintures 2007-2022. : Khaled Takreti, Bike 1, 2014. Acrylique sur toile, 114 x 146 cm.    Khaled Takreti. Libertés – Peintures 2007-2022. : Khaled Takreti, Bike 3, 2014. Acrylique sur toile, 114 x 146 cm.    Khaled Takreti. Libertés – Peintures 2007-2022. : Khaled TAKRETI, Rire et sourire 1, 2022. Acrylique sur toile, 100 x 80 cm.    Khaled Takreti. Libertés – Peintures 2007-2022. : Khaled TAKRETI, Souad Hosni, 2015. Acrylique sur toile, 162 x 97 cm.   


The exhibition


Considered by some to be indicative of a pop aesthetic, this construction through montage is echoed in the series Bikes (2014), whose self-portraits on bicycles appear as if transferred onto large solid-colored backgrounds or directly onto the unbleached canvas - evoking the silk-screened grid prized by Warhol, which is found in his 2021 East/West series taking up the scores of the comic book. But if the pope of American Pop claimed to want to "be a machine," Takreti is more at home in the freedom under the spotlight of Egyptian film star Souad Hosni, who used her fame and sensuality to promote women's rights in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with her portrait and that of dancer Nadia Gamal, it is the freedoms of the body and identity that are celebrated in her exhibition at Claude Lemand Gallery, which also features a female couple or a unicorn - a figure adopted by LGBTQIA+ communities as a "banner of the invisible" - in two paintings from 2022.

Extract from the article by Tom Laurent published in the N°103 of the magazine Art Absolument. Publication on October 14, 2022.

When


12/09/2022 - 23/10/2022
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