Telemachus Hervé (Hervé Télémaque)
Genus. 1937, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. French painter. Born into a wealthy family in the former French colony of Haiti, Telemachus, in 1957 he moved to New York, where he began to paint. In 1961, arrived in Paris, contacted a group of surrealists and some time participated in their exhibitions, presenting paintings, along the lines of abstract expressionism. In 1964, became one of the organizers of the landmark exhibition "Modern Mythology", which initiated the direction "of narrative figuration. Since then turned to the visual forms, stylized as a mass printed materials - posters, comics, illustrations in popular magazines (Sakvoyazh, 1965, private collection; Olympia, 1964, Paris, Gallery Louis Carré). In combinations of disparate images borrowed from advertising, sound reasons to protest against the police and military violence (Banana country number 3, 1964, private collection, one of the 36 000 marines in our Antilles, 1965, Brunswick Museum; capital income, 1975 , private collection). In 1973, visited Haiti. Upon his return to France, he settled on a secluded farm.
Lit.: Exposition Télémaque a l'ARC. Paris, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1976; Exposition Télémaque. Valencia, Centre Julio Gonzalez, 1998.
V. Kryuchkov
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