Edouard Duval-Carrié:
Imagined Landscapes
March 13, 2014 - Aug. 31, 2014
Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes is an exhibition project involving a series of new works generated over the past year by the Haitian-born, Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrié (b. 1954). Known for his innovative adaptions of traditional Haitian iconography, which he engages in order to address contemporary social and political conditions, Duval-Carrié is presenting a series of large-scale paintings and sculptures. Contrasting his signature use of strong colors, this project presents works executed entirely in black and silver glitter. Involving extensive research, Imagined Landscapes presents lush tropical scenes that reference specific nineteenth-century paintings executed in the Caribbean and Florida. These paintings, by artists such as Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Edwin Church, were commissioned as part of Colonial interests in promoting economic development of these areas of the world. The artists used pictorial effects, imagination and fictions to present the Caribbean as the “New Eden,” a fertile land of possibility. Duval-Carrié’s works translate these historical images into his own contemporary aesthetic language, in order to address the manner in which the tropics of the Caribbean and Florida continue to be sold as tropical paradises, in ways that often obscure economic and social disparities that continue to be perpetuated in these contexts.
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Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes
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ART REVIEW: Glitter Flirts in “Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes”
The drop-dead gorgeous art sparkles in the dark. Moonlight and silver glitter supplant color and sunshine found in many Caribbean scenes.
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Conversation: "Imagined Landscapes" with Edouard Duval-Carrié and Tobias Ostrander
For the opening of his solo exhibition, "Imagined Landscapes," Miami-based, Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié discussed his new work with PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.
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Edouard Duval-Carrié discusses his exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Generated over the past year, "Imagined Landscapes" features a series of mural-sized paintings and chandeliers, conceived as a single installation, depicting lush tropical scenes executed entirely in black and silver glitter.
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Biography
Edouard Duval-Carrié (b. 1954, Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian sculptor and painter, who was educated at McGill University and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
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Press Release: PAMM presents Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrie
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present a solo exhibition of new works by Haitian-born, Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrié from March 13 to August 31, 2014.
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el Nuevo Herald: Los paisajes negros de Duval-Carrié
Edouard Duval-Carrié (Haití, 1954) ha logrado un acto de sincretismo mayor. Uno que esconde su grandeza precisamente en su simplicidad. “We are walking into a dream”, dice un visitante abriendo los ojos al entrar al salón del Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) donde se exhibe "Imagined Landscapes." Si no fuera por las lámparas que simulan labrados chandeliers rococó, estaríamos bajo la profunda y argentada noche antillana, en la que la luna derrama iridiscencias sobre el paisaje cubierto de rocío.
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Miami.com: Muse of the month: Haitian-born, Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrié
About this piece: Haitian-born, Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrié will discuss this large-scale painting and others displayed in his solo exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami involving a series of new works generated over the past year with PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander on Thursday, March 13 from 7 - 9 p.m. The event is open to the public and free with museum admission. Space is limited. First come, first served.
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Sun-Sentinel: At the Perez Art Museum, intruders in the dusk
In Edouard Duval-Carrié's aluminum painting "After Bierstadt: The Landing," Christopher Columbus and Marie Antoinette are canoeing on a twinkling bay in the Caribbean, about to row ashore on an island thick with low-drooping trees and exotic plants. A modern-looking warship looms in the background. Their companions on the boat are Batman, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck and Mr. Potato Head.
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Knight Arts: Duval-Carrie’s new and re-imagined landscapes
The window at the back of this one gallery in the new Perez Art Museum Miami serves as a portal to the best of the city. From this perch you can see Biscayne Bay, all the boats and ships that have brought people and goods to this tip of the peninsula for ages, the causeway that leads across the glistening bay to Miami Beach.
It is not unlike the other portals in this room, which are a mixture of landscape-painting and tapestry-like new works from one of Miami’s best known artists, Eduoard Duval-Carrié. These allow us into a dreamy but troubling world of the Caribbean, past and present. They are stunning.
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Press Release: PAMM Announces Inaugural Exhibition Schedule
The selection and presentation of artists, collections, and commissioned projects for PAMM is guided by the Museum’s mission to create dialogues across and through local, regional, and international contexts and to emphasize artists and projects that engage with traditions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
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Conversation: "Imagined Landscapes" with Edouard Duval-Carrié and Tobias Ostrander
For the opening of his solo exhibition, "Imagined Landscapes," Miami-based, Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié discussed his new work with PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.