PAST EXHIBITIONS

The Fondation Clément has joined forces with the Dapper Foundation to welcome the exceptional creativity of artists who, past and present, demonstrate the wealth of a pluralist Africa. Neither Martinique, nor indeed the Caribbean more widely, have hosted an event of this type and scale before.

John Perello, better known as JonOne, was one of the trailblazers of street art in France. Born in Harlem (New York) in 1963 to Dominican parents, he has been living in Paris for nearly thirty years.

Neither the figure nor the work of Louis Laouchez, known as Joëlle Busca, allow for half measures or hesitation.

This exhibition brings together works by a leading figure in Martinican art from the second half of the 20th century, Joseph René Corail, known as Khokho.

Alexandre Bertrand, a figurehead of painting in Martinique, would say: “I have reds, blues, black and yellows with… quite a lot of contrast. It has a violent harmony. You need some time to get used to it.”

With Celebration by Llewellyn Xavier, Fondation Clement invites you to broaden and deepen your experience of abstract painting.

“There is the sky, there is the land, there is this people, Red, Black, Yellow, White, buffeted by history, the froth feeding my soul. This is what I trace with the transpiration of my heart and the fervour of my blood, Black, Red, White, Yellow, among peacefully sailing clouds and the tireless steel hooves of minotaurs.

Here is a photographer for whom the very essence of art is captured not in the studio but in the encounter with the other.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Centre Pompidou held an exhibition at the Fondation Clément on abstract non-geometric painting, as it developed in Paris after the Second World War.

The exhibition reveals how, with little touches, each photo contributes to the construction of a global image of the Caribbean region.