Attention, purveyors of all things shiny!
On Friday, May 3rd, Parisian-based artist Evariste Richer opens _Fool’s Gold,_ a curious show meant to entice and allure, exhibited at the now one-year-old [Emmanuel Barbault](http://emmanuelbarbault.com/) gallery in Manhattan’s Bowery. For all those art-trivia buffs out there, [Keith Haring](https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/684/chalk-day) used to live and work in the space circa 1982.
_Emergency Blanket_ \- 2019. Fujiflex Print. 20 x 15 cm unframed. 7.9 x 5.5 inches.
Utilizing pyrite, the mineral after which the exhibition has been eponymously named, Richer tackles appearances, desires and preconceptions to harness the fool’s gold’s shine and confront art’s monopoly on the eye. Is it a sham? A diversion? Will we ever know?
_Pyrite City_ \- 2019, with Evariste Richer. Subdivision project plan 46.81 x 33.11 inches, 13 pyrites, Eiermann architect table.
Richer’s practice is a fertile example of how presenting a cabinet of curiosities with a Renaissance sensibility while nodding to twentieth-century Conceptual Art can overlap in harmony.
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_Fool’s Gold_ runs from May 3rd until June 16th, 2019 at Emmanuel Barbault.
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