MÄKELISMOS Miami 2022

Every Child is an Artist/ Little Basquiat Edition is the digital evolution in 3D of one of the most famous pictorial series of the artist René Mäkelä. It is so applauded internationally that it came to 'unite' the artist Madonna, three times excommunicated by the Church, with Pope Francis. How? That's how it went: René Mäkelä had already made his Every Child is an Artist for his collector Matt Kemp when, one morning, he received an email: We are writing to you from Madonna's office. The singer wants you to be one of the artists decorating various murals for her foundation Raising Malawi. Sincerely. A few days later Mäkelä was already painting the enormous murals of the Malawi orphanage precisely with the Every Child concept that the Queen of Pop meticulously supervised. After that famous action, and in one of the interviews that the artist usually gives, he was asked what would be next after painting for so many sports stars and for Madonna. Mäkelä, between laughs, answered: "after Madonna... I don't know, the Pope". Said and done. A few months later, the Pope Francis received René in a private audience and took a reproduction of one of his most famous Every Child for his private collection. This 'union' between Madonna and the Pope could be tangential if it were not for the fact that, some time later, René, with direct contacts with both personalities, was called again to put them in touch and work the miracle of uniting the artist and the Pope.