Exhibition: Plural Masculinities

[Paris, Paris] Gay Only - Exhibition - <p>For this new partnership, the Contemporary Art Fund – Paris Collections and the Saint-Eloi library have decided to work around the representations of masculinities and gender identities in contemporary art. The 5 selected works were chosen with the complicity of Nikesco, an illustrator and comic book author who currently has a carte blanche at the library. In his graphic novels published by Editions Lapin and Exemplaire, Nikesco recounts his daily life as a deaf and queer young man. Among a pre-selection made by the contemporary art fund team, Nikesco's choice fell on works that represent men or non-binary people and question gender norms.</p>
<p>In the press area, two portraits face each other: The young man in red by Jean Malaval (1958) and Louis XVI or the king seen by the people by Jean-Philippe Lemée (1999). The anonymous man in Jean Malval's portrait, an artist with an atypical dual career as a painter and cyclist, looks at us with ambiguity: is it provocation, amusement, or seduction?</p>