While the captain of the Argentine soccer team, Lionel Messi, will arrive in Paris on October 30 to participate in the Ballon d'Or award ceremony, his portrait painted by the plastic artist Juan Rivière is exhibited at the Casa Argentina de la French capital, where it can be visited until November 10. Rivière is an artist who has specialized in immortalizing personalities of Argentine culture in oil paintings and his iconic portrait of the Rosario star, baptized "Lío lunático", is part of the collective art exhibition held every year by Casa Argentina at the Cité Universitaire of Paris organized by +Que2 Cultural Management, it was reported. The painting, which includes gold leaves from the base upwards merging with the oil, also had a leading place weeks ago at the Art Shopping Paris International Art Show, one of the main international events of accessible contemporary art that takes place at the Carrousel du Louvre. "It is a wonderful coincidence," the artist told Télam about the same painting that was on display during December 2022 in Buenos Aires, "accompanying the historical moment of the World Cup and that can now accompany another historical moment of our captain. Personally "It is an immense joy and I hope one day Leo sees 'Lio Lunatico'." The portrait of Messi, looking serenely ahead, with the National Team's substitute shirt, the violet one, surrounded by an aura of colorful brushstrokes that meander between pink and lilac tones, was born in October 2022, prior to the World Cup. Qatar.