African American artist Rashid Johnson uses paintings, sculpture, photography, video and found objects - including books and records - to explore questions of identity and particularly the legacy of afro-centrism. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth; photography by Fanis Vlastaras and Rebecca Constantopoulou

私人画廊正变得越来越重视上市，越来越多的聘请高度认证的馆长来举办“博物馆质量”展览。弗朗索瓦·皮诺(Fran Ois Pinault)今年秋天开业的新巴黎豪宅大大提高了赌注。雅典的乔治·伊科诺努藏品规模较小，但焦点鲜明。

当地航运巨头Economou于上世纪90年代开始收藏，迅速收集了世界上最好的德国表现主义藏品之一-“隐士”(Hermitage)，甚至在最近的一次展览中请他填补了一些空白，之后又添加了更多的当代作品。他的画廊现在每年举办两三场展览，总是有国际策展人的参与。最新的是“魔术数字”，由年轻的非洲裔美国艺术家拉希德·约翰逊(Rashid Johnson)举办的个展。

约翰逊出生于芝加哥，他使用绘画、雕塑、摄影、录像和发现的物品-包括书籍和记录-来探讨身份问题，特别是非洲中心主义的遗产。最近的作品出现了一个更抽象的转折，使用的材料有烧木、铸青铜、黑肥皂和蜡。

由约翰逊与纽约古根海姆博物馆(Guggenheim Museum)副馆长凯瑟琳·布兰森(Katherine Brinson)和经济博物馆馆长斯卡莱特·斯马塔纳(Skarlet Smatana)共同策划的“魔法数字”(MagicNumber)的核心是电影“新黑瑜伽”(The New Black Yoga，2011)，它几乎与你所期望的一模一样：一群黑人男子在海滩上做瑜伽的镜头。围绕着这幅画，约翰逊的装置总是让人联想到一种家庭的和一种起源的故事，他将一系列新的绘画和雕塑组合在一起。

The centrepiece of his show 'Magic Numbers' is the film 'The New Black Yoga' (2011), which is almost exactly what you would expect - footage of a group of black men doing yoga on a beach

A still from 'The New Black Yoga'

The video begins and ends with the image of a gun’s crosshairs – a symbol appropriated from the logo of hip-hop group Public Enemy - and is echoed in the oriental carpets placed adjacent to the projection

'Shea Butter Landscape', 2014. Around this work, Johnson - whose installations always suggest the domestic and a kind of origin story - has grouped a series of new paintings and sculptures

'1,2,4', 2013. Recent works have taken an abstract turn, using materials such as burned wood, cast bronze, black soap and wax

The crosshairs motif reappears in the final gallery, where Johnson’s sculpture 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos', 2012, is both a stark symbol of aggression and a composed study in geometric forms

'Good King', 2013 - covering the back wall of the gallery -  is the largest example to date of one of the artist's characteristic patchworks of found objects

This monumental work is paired with a monochrome composition from Johnson's 2013 'Cosmic Slop' series

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