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Saint-Soleil, the movement that shaped the history of Haitian painting
Culture · Saturday, November 21 · 16:00 · Paris
Bibliothèque André Malraux, 112 rue de Rennes
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A meeting with the novelist Luce Perez-Tejedor, within the Cinquantenaire André Malraux. Haiti, 1975. André Malraux climbs the heights of a remote hill overlooking the Port-au-Prince bay to meet a small community of painters composed of peasants and artisans who have emerged there. Malraux came to see with his own eyes the Saint-Soleil paintings, this art of miraculous strangeness inspired by voodoo, which he describes as the most striking of the 20th century. This novel rekindles the beautiful and fertile utopia that Saint-Soleil was, this little-known facet of the history of …
