{"id":11097,"date":"2016-04-05T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T15:09:24","slug":"mario-benjamin-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revuenoire.com\/en\/mario-benjamin-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Benjamin – Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mario Benjamin, untitled, acrylic on canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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(Port-au-Prince, Haiti)<\/p>\n

born in 1964<\/p>\n

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lives and works in\u00a0Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n

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Mario Benjamin works in a room open on the garden next to the house of his mother in Port-au-Prince. He is very attached to his environment and his island, Haiti, even if they have become to him synonymous with confinement, limited universe compared to the rest of the world. Breton and Malraux had \u2019cataloged Haitian art\u2019 by reducing it to the naive painting, voodoo blacksmiths and first black republic history. Mario Benjamin could not be limited to these expressions so distant from his reality, even if he readily accepts the role played in his subconscious by some voodoo rituals.<\/p>\n

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He read very young art books from the family library (his father is an architect, his mother a theater young actress then pharmacist) and visited many American museums. It started in the early 80s by the hyperrealist painting, which he then sells easily, by happenings and alive theater still in vogue at the time.<\/p>\n

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His meeting with the respected African-American artist Lois Mailou Jones of the interwar period Harlem Renaissance movement, married to Haitian artist Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, transformed this self-taught through here advice on colors and balance of the compositions. He acquires all the tools to explore its sensitivity outside the pre-established models of the 'Haitian' artist \u2026<\/p>\n

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[run the slideshow below]<\/p>\n

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