Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

Artist Kehinde Wiley puts power in a new frame with paintings of African leaders - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Sahle-Work Zewde, former president of Ethiopia during the opening of his exhibition A Maze of Power in Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Rabat, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) By Sam Metz associated press RABAT, Morocco — American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco on Tuesday, buildin…

Until the end of April, the Mohammed VI Museum in Rabat hosts "A Maze of Power", a masterly exhibition by Kehinde Wiley. This extraordinary transgressor of the rules of the art world, seizes the classical portraiture with the old and gives him a super cool ultra-modern transformation. We are talking about huge, bold and striking portraits like those of African heads of state who question, divert and reinvent the codes of political representation.