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| Keywords: Imported Photos 00010.JPG en another call from africa mixed media on canvas 45x60 own Turgoart 2009 my artwork represent the space of life my pilosophy of life is to search for the light in the ultimate darkness and present a global vision of truth and reality the vivid and powerful painting of TURGO BASTIEN glow with an inner spiritual luminosity depicting the artist's fascination with searching for and revealing the light in the ultimate darkness and the truth and nobility that is present in even the humblest of subjects his works have been exhibited and drawn critical acclaim internationally for their imagery a formal vocabulary he has developed that combines totemic afro-caribbean symbols with a striking modern sensibility that useds the rhythms and colors of native Haiti to epress a truly poetic cosmological reality he combines personalizes and refines these juxtapositions with a deft sophistication that shows mastery of his medium and his striking contemporary iconography Born in Haiti schooling at the Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture his artistic education was informal and began with a childhood love of drawing He was a self-taught painter in his teens when he found employment and expanded his techniques as a commercial artist for several years Known primarily for his paintings in acrylic he has also acquired skill as a sculptor using found objects-aluminum wood scrap metals and natural fibers-to further explore and explain his vision for the 20 years Bastien has maintaind homes and actively works in studios in Jacmel Haiti Nassau Bahamas and West Palm Beach Florida while producing a significant body of art that is testimony at mid-career to the importance of his work for its epressiveness sophistication and firm grounding in the intertional art dialogue He is also the founder of Art Creation Foundation an art school for children that he started and still supports in his native Haiti His pieces have been exhibited in Museums and galleries world-wide and have been reviewed in several books and publications Here There and beyond The bahamas Journal The Miami Herald The 303 Magazine The Denver Post and Haitian Art in the Diaspora Uncategorized 2009 August 26 Abstract paintings | ||||
