About Victor Anicet Ceramics Artist

The internationally recognized french caribbean artist and ceramist victor anicet describes martinique s history and presents his art work in a lively conversation.

About victor anicet ceramics artist.

His sculptures and paintings create a dynamic perspective of history including the spanish conquest of the caribbean islands the horrors of slavery and caribbean culture. He was a popular ceramic artist in the mid 19th century. Using 24k gold she affixes the mismatched pieces together breathing new life into otherwise overlooked materials. Wine enjoys observing human behavior and portraying it in a form of various ceramic sculptures.

He has made some of the best ceramic articles by giving them a modernized touch. This internationally recognized ceramist who studied in france england and germany as well as martinique gave this interview during a show of his work at the université antilles guyane in november 2001. He speaks about his childhood the horrors of slavery in the caribbean the french educational system and his training as an artist. Originally a formally trained printmaker and painter this multitalented brooklyn based artist found success in his hand built slab constructed ceramic vessels.

Inspired by the ancient kintsugi craft korean artist yee sookyoung repurposes discarded ceramic fragments into experimental works of art. Victor anicet kindly and passionately showed us his atelier and his work telling us the story of his development as an artist and explaining the origins and the aesthetic implications of his vision and art. He was a great friend and fellow of édouard glissant. That is why his artworks are usually getting the form of human heads but then again he is often presenting some of the objects for human use such as plates wine bottles or shoes.

During our research trip to martinique we had the great opportunity to meet victor anicet a very important painter and ceramist living in shoelcher. With victor anicet ann armstrong scarboro. The way in which he tries to elaborate the traces of the multiple and forgotten cultural pasts artefacts and arts of the creolizing caribbean starting from the amerindians and then the african slaves and the indian labourers etc not only to recover a lost past but to offer these. Anicet a seeker of shadows a restorer and rejuvenator of the past and a diligent scholar creates works of art that bring objects and symbols from the culture of his amerindian ancestors to life for the modern world.

He achieves his signature. A highly acclaimed french caribbean artist and ceramist victor anicet studied in france germany england and martinique. This internationally recognized ceramist speaking at an exhibit of his work at the université antilles guyane in november 2001 shows how he weaves ancestral symbols into his work.