Ernest Breleur
Ernest Breleur was born in 1945 in Martinique. He lives and works in Martinique.
Breleur is today a major figure in contemporary art in the Caribbean and internationally . He has taken part several times in numerous biennials such as those of Sao Paulo, the Seychelles, Santo Domingo, Ecuador, Cuba and Dakar. His works are presented at major exhibitions such as recently Caribbean: Crossroad of the world at the Queens Museum of Art in New York 2012-2013, or in 2011 with Escault, Rives Dérivés, international festival of contemporary sculpture .
Breleur’s work is large, rich and multiple. It is broken down into several periods. Many know him for his qualities as a painter, before, with the fwomagé group, and after, with the mythology of the moon series, the series of floating bodies, the white series to name but a few. Ernest Breleur’s work has always been prolific, serial; in search of openness and modernity. In 1992, the artist made a definitive break with painting. Since this pivotal date, Ernest Breleur has never ceased to found his singularity as an artist with a new material, radiography, and to apprehend in a very progressive way his approach to carving. He very broadly dealt with aesthetic and ethical questions which are for him fundamental in their relationship with the violence of globalization.
Since 2013, with the return to drawing, the artist who has always questioned death, has reversed the prism and today questions the living through the series Origin of the world and The enigma of desire. Returning to sculpture at the end of 2015 with the series The living, passage through the feminine, he will develop a series of sculptures nourished by this parenthesis of drawing.
Strengthened by all the encounters with, among others, Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau , and even Milan Kundera, his works appear among others in the collections of the FNAC, the FRAC Martinique, the Work Bank in Washington and the Clément Foundation.
