From October 1st to December 4th, 2011 – MUSEUM OF SAINT-PAUL
Free entry
Enchanted by Haitian Art, André Malraux writes:
“In truth, we are not in front of a representation but in front of a transfigured reality.”
Indeed, painting, which is the main mode of Haitian expression, is an explosion of colors and idyllic landscapes retracing and sublimating scenes of daily life filled with hardships and hopes, also blending voodoo magic with the dream of a better world.
The sculptures and the shaped and hammered ironworks by the “bosmetal” artists reveal a new facet of the wonderful and magical world of Haitian art.
By presenting three contemporary artists with contrasting work, the community of Saint-Paul de Vence invites you to discover various aspects of an art that has forged its own identity.
THE ARTISTS
Lucien MORISSET has been living in France since 1948 and in Saint-Paul de Vence for many years. His imaginary faces sculpted in olive wood are part of our local artistic heritage.
Frantz ZEPHIRIN was born in Cap-Haïtien in 1968.
He began painting in 1973 with Antoine Obin, a great master of the Cap-Haïtien school. It was from 1988 that he developed his own style, depicting all sorts of wild and familiar animals that in a free and colorful ballet recreate the tumultuous history of humanity. Zéphirin says with a smile: “Look closely, in every man there is an animal; a monkey, an elephant, a crocodile, a giraffe… I see them in a gesture, an attitude, a trait of character, and immediately capture them on canvas.”
Born on November 18, 1956, in Les Cayes, Jean-Adrien SEÏDE, whose painting has such a particular texture, began his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1973.
The landscapes of Jean Adrien Seïde are romantic. There is no central point in his canvases. The eye constantly roams the work, often of mural dimensions, moving from light to shadow, from the foreground to the depth of the field as far as the eye can see.
This artist, who currently lives in Venezuela but returns to Haiti to paint, exhibits worldwide.
