PAST EXHIBITIONS

It’s the metal frame of the islands that Hervé Beuze has chosen to set out, to account for the breaks and the permanencies that characterise our modern lives…

Tracks, first of all, here designed to clear a path, then to leave the footprints dedicated to all these hours devoted to this exhibition where the divine insurrections of Henri Guédon are manifested in paintings and sculptures, in any event, in breath-taking creations.

While graffiti is by definition illegal and underground and is part of the urban landscape, it is also recognised now as an artistic practice in its own right associated with street art. The escape from the walls takes the form of a creative impulse that makes the walls speak, an instinctive reaction impelled by an affirmation of freedom.

Composed of about sixty drawings and sculptures, the “Le vivant, passage par le Féminin” (“The Living, through the Feminine”) exhibition at the Fondation Clément is the largest exhibition ever dedicated to Ernest Breleur.

One of the most important artists of his generation, Hervé Télémaque (born in Haiti in 1937) started his career as a painter in New York before settling down in Paris where he contributed to the birth of the Narrative Figuration movement at the beginning of the 1960’s.

Florine Demosthène became noticed through collective and solo exhibitions organised in the United States, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Germany and Africa. Now, she lives in both Ghana and New York.

“Ronald Cyrille has loved drawing since his childhood, whether the cartoons seen on television, the fresco of the church in the village of Calibishie or the pious pictures and the photos in the living-room of his English-speaking grandmother in Dominica. On his return to Guadeloupe at the age of nine, he was able to communicate thanks to his pencil line while revising his French, which allowed him to “speak without bubbles”, as he liked to say.

John Lie A Fo, a passionate man who transmits his convictions, a musician, artist and a man proud of his roots who wants to be the spokesman of his culture, invoker of the intellect, inhabited with all these lives, he lives his own life fully, as a free artist.

The bulb. This motif, which became the symbol of Sébastien Méhal, came long before he became a painter.

Shirley Ruffin’s work is based on the perception of the body and more specifically on the question of the taboo of nudity in the postcolonial society of Martinique.