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The Télémaque years

PARIS – Hervé Télémaque, born in 1937, was the top representative of Narrative Figuration. A current large retrospective at the Centre Pompidou raises him to the status of major artist of the end of the XXth century. It follows and completes those at the Fondation Electricité de France and the IVAM in Valence, and spans over his whole career with 75 works: his origins in Haiti, his brief passage in New York (1959-60), his constant back and forth between paintings, collage, monumental frescoes and sculpture. His participation to the exhibition “Mythologies quotidiennes” at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1964 identified him as the recycler of symbols of our contemporary civilisation, as did the Pop artists. But he was also carried by other sources of inspiration. We see in his works references to "Négritude" or the great artists of the past, from Poussin and Magritte to Arshile Gorky.
• Hervé Télémaque at the Centre Pompidou, from 25 February to 18 May 2015.

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