Armel Promeneur
Painter, sculptor and collector of tribal art (Nepal, Mongolia, India and Afghanistan) and born in Guadeloupe in the West Indies, Armel Promeneur is a graduate of the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France, Plastiques Arts-section.
During his university studies, he had the opportunity to learn, for two years, the forgotten techniques. Missing knowledge but revived through the work of my teacher, Pierre Garcia: "THE BUSINESS OF THE PAINTER".
In 1998 whilst conducting research for my Master of Visual Arts on "Voodoo in Haitian art" I met the Consul of Haiti in Bordeaux. He called me during the day of the Francophonie to exhibit my work. Through this exposure and by various other meetings, I participated in various exhibitions of arts in Aquitaine. From 1999 to 2005 my work focused largely on dolls (Kachina) Navajo Indians of Arizona. In 2006 when I discovered the Gallery CELESTIAL ARTS and other Parisian galleries with Himalayan themes, my work took another direction. It began to focus on the images and objects that I found in these galleries.
In recent years my work has been rooted mainly in my collection of objects from the Himalayan regions and meetings that I make during my strolls in flea markets. I use recycled materials. Materials marked with the passage of time: Proceedings of notaries, old envelopes, linen sackcloth. It happens quite often that i incorporate some small items in my collection. I also create my sculptures from centuries old trunks and wooden beams from old uninhabited Caribbean shacks.
My main subject is the face, the mask.
"The mask releases fixity and servitude of identity". Michel Foucault
Painter, sculptor and collector of tribal art (Nepal, Mongolia, India and Afghanistan) and born in Guadeloupe in the West Indies, Armel Promeneur is a graduate of the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France, Plastiques Arts-section.
During his university studies, he had the opportunity to learn, for two years, the forgotten techniques. Missing knowledge but revived through the work of my teacher, Pierre Garcia: "THE BUSINESS OF THE PAINTER".
In 1998 whilst conducting research for my Master of Visual Arts on "Voodoo in Haitian art" I met the Consul of Haiti in Bordeaux. He called me during the day of the Francophonie to exhibit my work. Through this exposure and by various other meetings, I participated in various exhibitions of arts in Aquitaine. From 1999 to 2005 my work focused largely on dolls (Kachina) Navajo Indians of Arizona. In 2006 when I discovered the Gallery CELESTIAL ARTS and other Parisian galleries with Himalayan themes, my work took another direction. It began to focus on the images and objects that I found in these galleries.
In recent years my work has been rooted mainly in my collection of objects from the Himalayan regions and meetings that I make during my strolls in flea markets. I use recycled materials. Materials marked with the passage of time: Proceedings of notaries, old envelopes, linen sackcloth. It happens quite often that i incorporate some small items in my collection. I also create my sculptures from centuries old trunks and wooden beams from old uninhabited Caribbean shacks.
My main subject is the face, the mask.
"The mask releases fixity and servitude of identity". Michel Foucault
