TEMPLON announces the internationale representation of the French-Senegalese artiste, Alioune Diagne. 

Born in 1985 in Fatick, Senegal, Alioune Diagne lives and works between Dakar and Vienne in Isère, France. Graduated in 2008 from the Beau-Arts of Dakar, he immediatly distinguished himself by founding in 2013 a unique mode of expression : the “figuro-abstro”, a figurative image created from an infinite number of unique elements.

Templon will present one of his works, “Modou Modou Dakarois”, 2019, in Paris+ and will dedicate a solo exhibition to him in January 2023 in its Brussels space.

Since 2011, his work has been the subject of numerous personal and collective exhibitions in Europe, Africa and Asia, including “Sing or Swim”, 11th Biennale de Dakar, Senegal, 2014 ; “Itinerary on Colors”, Espace Jean Drevon, Saint-Jean-de-Bournay (France), 2014 ; the exhibition outside the walls of Art Basel, 2017, Basel ; “Un nouveau regard”, Aosta, Italy, 2017. His work has also been part of the national collection of Senegal since 2019. In 2022, Diagne’s work entered the national collection of Senegal and was presented in an exhibition of the Dakar 2022 biennal at the Grand Théâtre de Dakar. 

Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art explores how four artists, of different times and different places, use gold as an artistic strategy for innovation and honor. For the occasion, Kehinde Wiley presents his artwork The Archangel Gabriel alongside two contemporary painters to elevate and honor the Black men and women they depict.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

From October 13, 2022 to January 16, 2023

Opening on October 4, the exhibition “Blacks Indians From New Orlean” will present two artworks by afro-american Michael Ray Charles. Via a geographical and chronolical journey featuring interviews, contemporary costumes and traditional works, the exhibition reveals a singular culture, built by more than three centuries of resistance against the assault of social and racial domination.

Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum, France

From October 4, 2022 to January 15, 2023

On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche, October 1, 2022, the work Atys #1 by Prune Nourry will be visible in the Cour d’honneur of the Palais-Bourbon of the French National Assembly, from 8pm to 1:30am.

Free entrance without registration at 126 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris.

French National Assembly, Paris

On October 1, 2022

Kehinde Wiley’s “Rumors of War”, settled in its permanent home at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Kehinde Wiley’s work is a direct response to Confederate monuments in the United States and explores the politics of representation, race and gender in America.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States

Chiharu Shiota’s work is currently displayed in her new exhibition, Circulating Memories, in Oita at Beppu Project, Japan. 

Beppu Project, Oita, Japan

Through October 16, 2022

From October onwards, the Great Hall of the Royal Museums will host a monumental work by the multidisciplinary artist Prune Nourry, a rising figure in international contemporary art. L’Amazone érogène, shown for the first time at the Bon Marché rive gauche Paris in 2021, is a work directly linked to her personal fight against breast cancer and is inspired by the mythological figure of the Amazons. 

Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Belgium

From October 14, 2022 to February 12, 2023

Specimen Room used to be a room for anatomical specimens when this was a nursing school, works by Shiota Chiharu made of glass, thread, and wire are being exhibited along with specimens that remain in their glass cases. 

Aichi Arts Center, Japan

From July 30 to October 10, 2022

For this installation, Shiota has chosen to work with red yarn, a colour she associates with blood, the body and human relationships. Into the vast entanglement of her “three-dimensional drawing”, the artist has woven personal stories of birth, childhood, family and country, religion, love and death. Each was written by someone from Kosovo.

Manifesta 14, Kosovo

From July 22 to October 30, 2022

Curated by Marion Bataillard, the new exhibition “Gestalt” at the Centre d’art contemporain, àcentmètresducentredumonde presents works by Jean-Michel Alberola. 

àcentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan

Through October 2, 2022

Provocative and sumptuous, rigorous and ironic, Claude Viallat’s painting shows the power of color through the repetition of a simple form. At La Chapelle, the artist display a selection of recent, unstructured canvases that respond to the architecture of the place by the audacity of their form and the flamboyance of the color. 

Chapelle Sainte-Marie-Claude, Annonay

Through August 19, 2022

“ExodeS” is a particular cultural event because of its conception, invading, for one summer, a city rich in history and migrations since Antiquity. The exhibition is installed in temporary structures, taking possession of emblematic places and monuments, squares and gardens, unusual places, seashores where it is good to stroll, rest, look.

Philippe Cognée, James Casebere - Exodes

ville de Saint-Raphaël 

From July 1st to September 30, 2022

Dedicated to childhood in contrast to prehistoric art, forty fiery, baroque and complex canvases weave a disconcerting and singular cave, impregnated with the original power of painting.

From this whirlwind emerges a complex reflection that the artist, a new father, questions on the innocence of art and man in the grip of history and memory, between mythology, literature and anthropology.

To do this, Orsten Groom called the great prehistorian and specialist in cave art, Jean-Michel Geneste (former curator and director of research at the Lascaux cave, heritage and director of the National Center for Prehistory and the multidisciplinary study program of the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave), with whom a lengthy interview has been reproduced in the catalog published on the occasion.

Orsten Groom - LIMBE [Le Vroi dans la Nuit]Suquet des Artistes, CannesFrom July 1st to December 11, 2022

Black Rock Senegal seeks to support new artistic creation through collaborative exchange and to incite change in the global discourse about Africa. The third year of the program will run between July 2022 and March 2023 and will welcome sixteen artists from around the world.

The selected artists for Black Rock 2022-2023 are: ‘Pemi Aguda (Nigeria, Writer), Gouled Ahmed (Ethiopia, Textile), Sophia Nahli Allison (USA, Film), Adrian L. Burrell (USA, Film), Panmela Castro (Brazil, Painter), Chinwe Chigbu (Nigeria, Photographer), Ayan Farah (Sweden, Mixed Media), Enam Gbewonyo (United Kingdom, Textile), Stephen Leo Hayes Jr. (USA, Sculptor), Amina Kadous (Egypt, Photographer), Mae-ling Lokko (Ghana, Mixed Media), Nasheeka Nedsreal (Germany, Performance Based), Nengi Omuku (Nigeria, Painter), Léonard Pongo (Belgium, Visual Artist), Khalif Tahir Thompson (USA, Painter), and Paul Verdell (USA, Painter).

Kehinde Wiley - Black Rock Senegal

Dakar, Senegal

July 2022 to March 2023 

The body in all its states is a fundamental data of the contemporary creation: painting, drawing, print, installation, ceramics, videogram… Externalized, reified in a way, it departs from the poignant authenticity of the body of the artist of Body Art. The body that we guess, that we cross, that imposes itself, that falls, that flies away, that spreads, that we divide… Everything is about weight, breath and matter. Lourd léger tells the story of a body in search of rest, humor, gravity and fantasy. Classical art has bequeathed us a body of metamorphoses and reveries.

Philippe Cognée - Lourd, Léger, les états du corps

Moulin des Arts, Saint-Rémy

From June 25 to September 4, 2022

Here, Navarro invokes the iconic form of water towers, closely associated with the skyline of New York City, a city where immigrants from around the world gather in search of a better life. Guthrie’s 1940 song criticized the privatization of resources in the United States that he believed all should have access to, including water. Notably absent from Guthrie’s song is reference to Indigenous Nations’ right to this land and critical role in protecting clean water. Ultimately, Navarro’s installation raises questions about how nations linked by colonial histories might reshape their futures.

Iván Navarro - This is your land 

Sculpture and Architecture Park, New York 

Starting June 25, 2022

With this new series made in 2020 during the confinement, Iván Navarro takes the viewer on a poetic journey through cosmic landscapes. Constellations, nebulae, eclipses, large panels of illuminated glass open up like windows to the infinity of space. Both sublime and intriguing, these imaginary cartographies question the limits of astronomy, mental representations and anthropocentrism.

Iván Navarro - Rêveries 

Domaine Pommery, Reims 

From June 25 to November 8, 2022

“Mettre au monde” questions the complex interaction between creation, begetting, public and private spheres, intimacy and extimacy while questioning the tenuous balance between these worlds in the life of an artist, parent, active and independent evolving notably in the field of visual arts still too little structured in the social support of its actors. The exhibition “Mettre au monde” (Bringing into the world) was created by the curators Amélie Adamo and Lucile Hitier. It supports a selection of artists who have – at some point in their lives – dedicated their work to their family, their child, to the inhabited body, to the nurturing body or to the artistic practice of four hands.

Prune Nourry - Mettre au Monde

L’Artsenal, Dreux

From June 23 to January 8, 2023 

“The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition devoted to the internationally active artist Chiharu Shiota. On display are some one hundred works ranging from her 1990s output to her latest pieces. In addition to large-scale installation, there are sculptures, performance videos, photographs, drawings, and materials related to her stage design projects. 

Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia. From June 18 to October 3, 2022

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. From May 1 to August 29, 2021

After visiting several places in the hometown,  Viallat, in collaboration with Saytour, chose to exhibit their work in places not so well suited to present painting, a way to put painting back into play and to renew with the spirit of Supports/Surfaces. 

Aubais, France

Through August 21, 2022