Raphaël Barontini’s Le prince cr’eole, or The Creole Prince, is a stunning example of the artist’s  unique artistic process. Often combining silkscreen printing, collage, and painting in his textiles,  Barontini’s works are densely layered both artistically and symbolically. Barontini’s art is influenced by  the Creole culture in the Caribbean where his mother was born. In Le prince cr’eole, Barontini depicts  the head of Louis XIII ⎯ as painted by Frans Pourbus II, in his seventeenth-century work, Portrait of  Louis XIII, King of France as a Boy. The electrifying blue fringe and raffia (strips from the Raffia palm  tree native to tropical regions of Africa) are taken from a sacred African mask from Gabon. The purple  and black haze that surrounds this figure is a digital rendering of an abstract painting made by the  artist. In using these varied materials and in drawing from different cultures, Barontini creates a  pictorial space in which Western and African cultures meet one another and form a new narrative – a  kind of counter-history. Barontini is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery.