On Friday, SoHo’s Georges Bergès Gallery is debuting “Haiku,” its latest solo exhibition for Hunter Biden, the artist, recovering addict, and embattled second son of president Joe Biden.
None of Biden’s new worksfor the show, which feature colorful, flower and tree-like designs,areinhispreviously documented medium of blown ink abstraction, Bergès told The Daily Beast; they’re all brushwork on canvas.
In an effort to prevent ethical breaches, White House officials have put measures in place to shield information about how much Biden’s work is selling for, and to whom.
Last October, however, the New York Post reported that five of Biden’s original prints sold for $75,000 apiece in anticipation of an LA pop-up presentation for Biden hosted by Bergès.
Federal agents are reportedly currently investigating Hunter’s finances and debating filing tax crime charges against him.
The night before the LA show’s opening night, Bergès called Biden to check on him, the gallerist told The Daily Beast. “He said, ‘Georges, my whole life I feel I’ve done what was expected of me or what people want me to do. For the first time, I’m doing what I want to do, so I have no more reasons to run away or escape.’ And I found that to be very touching, and very reflective of his reality.”
Other entries include vivid, disjointed landscapes and an Hilma af Klint-like rendering of an uroboros surrounding a kaleidoscopic geometric pattern, suggesting a cluttered mind searching for optimistic angles.
“They’re elegant paintings and they’re very complex in terms of their process, andeach one has a haiku on the back” Bergès told The Daily Beast. “The collectors who came in last night were very impressed.” Bergès told The Daily Beast that the price range for Biden’s new pieces is $55,000 to $225,000.
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