Maxwell Alexandre: Pardo é Papel

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Author: Alexandre, MaxwellPublished for his first North American solo exhibition, this catalogue presents Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre’s ongoing series Pardo é Papel. Suspend ed from the ceiling, Alexandre’s large-scale paintings portray striking scenes of communal leisure interspersed with religious and art-historical imagery. Pop-cultural symbols appear alongside these images, including depictions of Black cultural icons such as Beyoncé, Nina Simone and Elza Soares.Also featured are commercial products from his childhood such as popular plastic blue Capri pools, Danone yogurt and the chocolate drink Toddynho. Alexandre paints his Black subjects on brown craft paper – pardo, in Portuguese. Although the main series title translates directly as “brown is paper” to reference the pardo paper itself, historically the term holds double significance as an ambiguous racial category in Brazil. Alexandre uses pardo paper to affirm and empower Blackness.ISBN 9783753303093. Walther König, Köln. hb. 148 pages. 99 colour ills. 26 x 19.1 cm.available to order Show more