@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---1911 Ponce De Leon,Coral Gables,  Florida

Galerie D'art Nader 

requests the pleasure of your company for the exhibition

"Variations and couleurs"

of internationally renown Haitian artist

Jean-Claude Legagneur

Friday December 3rd, 2004

From 7Pm to 10Pm

Exhibition continues through December 16th, 2004

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Ile Caraibe

40"x70"

Acrylic  on canvas

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@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---1911 Ponce De Leon,Coral Gables,  Florida

Galerie D'art Nader 

requests the pleasure of your company for the exhibition

"DREAMS OF LOVE"

of internationally renown  artist

TATIANA A-BAKI

Friday December 17th, 2004

From 7Pm to 10Pm

Exhibition continues through December 31st, 2004

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Tatiana A-Baki, painter and poet is a graduate of Harvard University in Philosophy, Germanic Languages and French Literature. As a member of the Arts Foundation at Harvard, she participated in numerous cultural events and artistic performances aimed at uniting cultures
and resolving conflicts through the arts.

Tatiana A-Baki paints and writes since her childhood. Her work has been exhibited in
Harvard University, St. John's Church (Cambridge), the International Monetary Fund
(Washington D. C.) , the National Press Club (Washington D. C.), Trump Towers (N.Y.), among others.

Her paintings are owned by many notable personalities, among them:

President Bill Clinton, Bo Derek, David Murdock, Senator Christopher Dodd, Josef Issa, John
and Christina Mclaughlin, Mack and Donna Mclarty, among others.

"The most amazing thing about Art is the power it transmits through its silence and yet it can be so loud. Art goes beyond sound, word and space, and moves our very inner soul. It has the power to unite because it is definitely the language of Love."
 

@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---1911 Ponce De Leon,Coral Gables,  Florida

Galerie D'art Nader 

requests the pleasure of your company for the exhibition

of internationally renown  artists

December 21st, 2004

From 3Pm to 7Pm

Exhibition continues through March  7th, 2005

@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---#50 rue Gregroire, Petion-Ville, Haiti

May 6th - 21st, 2004   : 

Calixte Henry  Exhibit

" Le Quotidien "
 

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Calixte Henri

1933 Port au Prince

 Calixte Henri was born in Port au Prince.  Having done his primary and secondary education at the Lycée Petion, Calixte then became a telegraph operator.  In 1955 he began painting at the Centre d’Art, where for four years he studied under Philomé Obin. From 1959 on, he worked out of his own studio. He spent three years in the United States where he gained recognition from the Guggenheim Foundation.

He was strongly influenced by the impressionists and cubists as well as certain Haitians, finding particular inspiration from both Braque and Seurat. As his methods evolve, Calixte abandoned brushes in favor of razor blades and later, the knife.  His paintings developed from darker shades early on, into heightened finesse and transparency with more pastel tones and less contrast.

Calixte Henri has always been very attached to Haitian life.  His uncompromising sincerity has made him a highly respected artist who has carved and important niche in the history of Haitian art. Many younger artists have studied under him such as Dreux, Hilome Jose, Cameau Rameau, Joseph Cameau,  Yves Cameau, Camy Rocher, Delnatus.

 Exhibitions

     1982    International Art Expo, New York, NY

1983    Musée International d’Art Naïf, Nice France

     1986 International Art Exhibit, New York

               A.H. Riise Gallery, St, Thomas, U.S. Virgin

      1988 Galerie Savannah Blue, Tampa, Florida

      1990 Exposition du Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg, France

      1991 Le Musée d’Art Haïtien, Port au Prince, Haïti

      2002 Etre, Seville, Spain- October

      2003 Galerie Nader, Pétion Ville, Haiti  - May

      2003 Etre, Berlin, Germany -October

@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---Coral Gables,  Florida

January 9th - 23th, 2004   : 

Franck Louissaint Exhibit

" Haiti in the Eye of the Artist: Images of daily life in Haiti "
 

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Franck Louissaint was a primitive painter when he came to the Art Center in 1969. He was then in his twenties. Louissaint learned drawing, composition and colors like his antecessors Cedor, Gourgue and the others. Today the painting that he is presenting to us shows us that he learned well.

Daily life is present in each single painting of Louissaint. In his canvasses, time seems to have stopped. The characters are depicted right into the action. This purposely pause by the artist, leaves the viewer the pleasure to look, to even live the present moment, the situation. This life’s approach, of the daily labor of our men and women called for the use of a realistic style. For this, Franck Louissaint has worked relentlessly and alone, looking nevertheless for the encouragements of both Francene Murat and Antonio Joseph: his friends.  He then attained such an acute realism that some people compare his art works to photography. But in reality, Franck Louissaint’s art goes further than photography.

 Nothing looks still. On the contrary, one expects the movement to resume anytime. Besides, that is a painting which does not depend on the hazard, on the chance to have the subject in the right time at the right place. It is rather a painting that lies on the artist’s acute sense of observation and good memory. In fact, Franck Louissaint chooses his subjects, put them in a context and treat them with a minutia that invites and fascinates the look.

In front of a canvas by Franck Louissaint , one finds himself or herself as a spectator. Never the dialog was initiated between us and the subject. It is too occupied in its personal life, in its survival to even feel our presence. Franck Louisaint’s scenes are not narrative. They say a fact, a moment, without any comments. This fact, this moment, this painting is rendered to us in all his truth, a truth that itself raises some interrogations, induce some comments and force to reflection.  

@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---Coral Gables,  Florida

December 12th - 31st, 2003:

                                                TIGA

                                                          Gesner Armand

                                                           Burton Chenet

@ Galerie Nader --  50, Rue Gregoire, Petion-Ville, Haiti

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Nov 21- Dec 5th, 2003  : Lyonel Laurenceau  Exhibit

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48” x 72”, acrylic on canvas, 2003

Celebration

 In hopes to both commemorate and celebrate Haiti’s two hundred years of Independence, I undertook the task of sharing my artistic vision of this momentous event on canvas.  Using geometrical figures, at once pyramidal and circular, I conveyed to the piece an unequivocal impression of strength and determination. 

In the painting, the beaming rays of light create surroundings in which the blue and red Haitian flag is prominently displayed.  The scene is ethereal and appears to float towards the heavens in a timeless ascension.  

The centerpiece, a bright-eyed J.J. Dessalines coifed with his imperial panache, contemplates the future of his nation like a true visionary. 

All around him, a carousel of dancing horses, free-spirited and newly-liberated, that spread their hoofed limbs energetically.  From the outskirts, bugle-bearing celestial creatures announce the crowning achievement with fanfare. 

The intensity of the festivities brings about rumbling quakes and tremors throughout the scene, opening up cracks and fissures to allow Haiti’s coat of arms to emerge.  Independence at last cloaks itself with its noblest words: Freedom, Equality, Fraternity.

Lyonel Laurenceau

The Maestro
         

@ Galerie D'Art Nader ---Coral Gables,  Florida

Friday, September 5th, 2003 - Sponsoring Florida Association for Women Lawyers
                                                                             benefiting the "Haitian Women's Legal Project"
                                                                    The Mayor of Coral Gables, Don Slesnick & Myriam Nader

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May 16, 2003  :    TIGA      "IBOBEL"

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