Hérault
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Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life unique characters who populate his work in the form of paintings, sculptures, installations and animations. His style is similar to that of American artists
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Basquiat
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Scharf
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and incorporates influences from
graffiti
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and comic books. Di Rosa is a key figure in the " Figuration Libre" movement of French painters. His work is often humorous and brash and shows his passion for
kitsch
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or " Art Modeste." In 2000, Di Rosa built a Museum dedicated to Modest Art in Sète, France. In August 2006 he had a show of his work at the Bass Museum in Miami. He shows regularly with the Gallery Haim-Chanin in New York and Louis Carré et Cie. in Paris.
Controversy
In April 2019, controversy arose over a 1991 Di Rosa mural at the
French Parliament
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which features two stereotypical blackface figures. The mural, meant to commemorate the 1794 abolition of slavery in France, was characterized as humiliating and dehumanizing by Mame-Fatou Niang of
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and the French author Julien Suaudeau who launched a petition calling for the mural's removal. The mural had come to Niang's attention when it was tweeted to her by a French schoolgirl. Di Rosa responded to the criticism saying “These two people allow themselves to accuse me of racism ndhave the nerve to act as spokespeople for the millions of victims f slaveryand want to censor the work,” and accepted no responsibility for any offense caused by the work nor acknowledged that it could even be honestly perceived as racist.
Keith Haring
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Tseng Kwong Chi
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Kenny Scharf
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Villa Medici
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Groninger Museum
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, Groningen.
Barbara Gladstone
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Gallery, New York.
Tony Shafrazi
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