Recto/Verso charity auction
Secours Populaire and the LVMH Foundation
The gallery responded to the call for the recto/verso 2 exhibition project, organized by Secours populaire and the Louis Vuitton Foundation, whose aim is to promote access to art and culture for the most underprivileged. The 100 works in the exhibition, all donated by the artists and in our case by the gallery, will be auctioned “blind” to benefit Secours populaire.
In order to make these works known to as many people as possible, the Foundation will open its doors free of charge on Wednesday 20 June and Sunday 24 June.
This Cuban artist has no other means of expression than that of her creation. The walls of her home, where she lives with her mother, are covered with drawings of bodybuilders, brown tape scattered along the outlines. A true community of men, women, hermaphrodites and wildlife, Misleidys has built her sociality through her work. Discovered by the gallery in 2014, she has been featured in more than 10 international exhibitions since 2018, including New Images of Man in Los Angeles, Flying High in Vienna, and Independent in New York. Acclaimed by Matthew Higgs and Karen Wong (New Museum, NYC), the artist has been the subject of recent reviews in the New York Times and Art in America.
A significant number of his works was donated to the Centre Pompidou collection in 2021.