In the series of paintings “Kaleidoscope”, Bokobza uses the musical methodology of theme and variations. Bokobza corresponds in the exhibition with Piet Mondrian’s well-known work “Composition in Blue, Yellow and Red” (1929) by choosing motifs that have become identified over the years with his own work (children, birds and patterns of eyes) and drawing them in threes: blue, yellow and red. The choice of the palette of primary colors is understood as dealing with questions that have preoccupied painters in modernity regarding color, shape, line and stain. However, in light of Bokobza’s many years of preoccupation with questions of locality and identity, the new works can also be understood as questioning definitions of race, class, religion and gender.
Curator: Daria Kaufmann
Works

Warm countries – small

Warm countries – big

Boy with blue eyes

Bird with red fruits

Girl on blue

Girl on yellow

Girl on red

Boy with moon

Boy with yellow sun

Boy with red sun

Boy on red

Boy on blue

Two birds on the moon

Bird on the moon

Bird on red sun

Bird on yellow sun

Diversity

Fan 10

Fan 9

Fan 8

Fan 7

Fan 6

Tete de negre

Eclair

Baba
