 Highland Park • Pittsburgh, PA 15206 • 1-412-661-1498 macondo@telerama.com SINCE 1974 |
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presents a selection ofHaitian
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| In 1953, DeWitt Peters, the American schoolteacher and watercolorist who was instrumental , along with Haitians Maurice Borno, Geo Remponeau, Albert Mongones and others, with giving life to the modern Haitian Art movement, parked his car alongside the cemetery in Croix-des-Bouquets, a small town off the Cap Haitian road. He noticed some elaborate iron crosses that decorated the graves, and after inquiring about them, was led to the house of Georges Liautaud, a blacksmith and mechanic. With Peters' encouragement Liautaud forged more crosses and one day made the transition to steel drums, creating representations of Haitian voudou gods and goddesses by flattening the drums and cutting out the images with hammer and chisel. Soon he took on apprentices who became internationally known "bosmetals" in their own right. His first helpers were Serge Jolimeau, Gabriel Bien-Aime and the Louisjuste brothers. Today the Noailles district of Croix-des-Bouquets resonates with the whang of hammer on chisel on steel sheeet and the tradition of the master Liautaud is carried on by Jolimeau and by a new generation of "dwoum" artists including the Balan brothers, Julio, Joel , Jonas, and Romel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| #JBF12. Julio Balan 12x13" " Two Fish" 2005 $30 |
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| #F828 Jean Rony 8x28" 2005 $35 |
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| #JBFSHSN. Julio Balan 34x34" "Fish with Sun" 2005 $300 Includes domestic shipping |
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