Hervé Telemachus.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 19120 |
| Format | 25 x 28 |
| Détails | 235 p., color and black and white illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757209172 |
One of the most influential French artists of his generation, Hervé Télémaque (born in Haiti in 1937) began his career as a painter in New York before settling permanently in Paris, where he contributed to the emergence of the Narrative Figuration movement in the early 1960s. Initially situated at the intersection of Surrealism and Pop Art, his work draws as much on his personal history as on a profound reflection on the object, which allows Télémaque to playfully explore the sometimes problematic relationships between image and language. A longtime follower of the "clear line" and often combining painting and real objects before approaching collages and assemblages, Télémaque has throughout his career taken a poetic and political view of the world, without ever denying his Haitian roots. With a collection of paintings, drawings, collages, objects and assemblages, testifying to the diversity of his work, the retrospective organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Cantini Museum of Marseille is the pretext for this catalog which now constitutes a reference work on Telemachus. Susceptible to numerous interpretations, his production, characterized by his plastic force, his critical acuity and his delightful irony, is illuminated by numerous commentaries and unpublished documents.
One of the most influential French artists of his generation, Hervé Télémaque (born in Haiti in 1937) began his career as a painter in New York before settling permanently in Paris, where he contributed to the emergence of the Narrative Figuration movement in the early 1960s. Initially situated at the intersection of Surrealism and Pop Art, his work draws as much on his personal history as on a profound reflection on the object, which allows Télémaque to playfully explore the sometimes problematic relationships between image and language. A longtime follower of the "clear line" and often combining painting and real objects before approaching collages and assemblages, Télémaque has throughout his career taken a poetic and political view of the world, without ever denying his Haitian roots. With a collection of paintings, drawings, collages, objects and assemblages, testifying to the diversity of his work, the retrospective organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Cantini Museum of Marseille is the pretext for this catalog which now constitutes a reference work on Telemachus. Susceptible to numerous interpretations, his production, characterized by his plastic force, his critical acuity and his delightful irony, is illuminated by numerous commentaries and unpublished documents.