Evens Arcelin | 2 Series: Pleasure & Phidias

“Everything is made of ease and difficulty, many paintings are born with a certain ease and others in pain, and for this, all the surfaces must be well prepared before I apply the first coat of paint that I call chaos, the genesis of all perfect order.”
-Evens Arcelin

Evens Arcelin
2 Series:
Pleasure & Phidias

Phidias

This series invites us to reflect on what we are called to or the involuntary rejection of our creative powers. Phidias is the cornerstone of this series. With the famous quote,
I learned from my math teacher who repeated, “each man carries within him a Phidias; his duty is to chisel his marble until he brings out the coarse mass of his instinct.”
An intelligent, cultured, and free being. There is so much suffering on earth.

Some of the artworks advocate a new global contract, a new way of seeing the world. Promiscuity is all those who live and pile up in the dark without hope of a better tomorrow. Nicole is the symbol of resistance and power, this woman who fights against all odds, who resists and commands. Everyone holds their place in the society in which they evolve, conscious or unconscious. This force to think propels us towards glory or keeps us in shame, parallelism existing between the strong and the weak to know who is the lucky one.

Evens Arcelin

Gold List Award Artist, Evens Arcelin was born and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and practiced painting, drawing, theater, and martial arts; all these disciplines allow him access to a vast field of deep and intense thought. A faithful receiver of spiritual signals, passionate about music and nature, he believes that spirituality can sharpen our senses and raise us to a greater physical and mental dimension. His artistic career began in 1995.
First, he attended several artists’ studios in his community. Then, in February 1996, he joined the workshops of his big brother Frantzy Arcelin who had introduced him to naïve painting, and then gradually, he reached the realist, which he considered a mental cellar preventing him from being ecstatic at the limit of freedom.
Evens Arcelin has exhibited both in Haiti and abroad, in 2005-he participated in the exhibition “Trends of young Haitian painting” at the Haitian Art Museum of St Pierre College, and in 2013, for the same museum, he was chosen to the “Save the Museum” exhibition with the committee Toussaint Louverture at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery in New York.
In 2003, he received the prize for a young painter at the National Diplomatic and consular Academy and which at the same time earned him a scholarship in diplomacy (NDCA) 2019- 2020 in France with the Salon des Independants Art Capital.
Furthermore, in 2022 he was awarded the GOLD LIST award- Top contemporary artists of today and featured in the Gold List Special Edition #7 with a worldwide distribution, published by the International Art Market magazine.

His abstraction is the strength of his spiritual thoughts, his research focuses on all living entities of nature, and in 2021, he will be baptized Hiram-Abi, his spiritual name, and his artist name.

Pleasure and Spirituality

In this series, I have collected works of different themes for building parallelism that aims not to distance us from the chosen concepts but not to allow us to place the light where it should be so that shadow never loses its place in uncreative exercise.
Pleasure and the spiritual are severable, but they create balance and harmony so that everyone manages their time to express themselves clearly without any variation.
The pleasure series includes the nap, the laughter, the musician, and a pair of buttocks that shows itself all raw inviting the fools and the wise to throw themselves into smooth and unequaled combat.
The spiritual part invites us to present our offerings, go to the celestial or terrestrial deities, and exalt ourselves in a much larger sphere of what we know. Between good and evil, light and shadow, pleasure and spiritual, a vital gap creates the extraordinary balance of all things.

The truth is that I like all white surfaces, whatever they are, a wall or a canvas; I have a particular passion for all the big ones that scare me. I grew up in a neighborhood that used to be peaceful; today is known as a lawless zone. This allows me to understand and tame all the stress produced by the web; no subject or motif is known in advance of the white surface without touching it before starting to work. Everything is made of ease and difficulty, many paintings are born with a certain ease and others in pain, and for this, all the surfaces must be well prepared before I apply the first coat of paint that I call chaos, the genesis of all perfect order. Then I started to listen to my mind while trying to figure out the drawing; the process can be long, depending on what was found in the first.

Anything that could leave a trace in the creative process is used, such as coffee grounds, markers, spray, oil sticks, and acrylic paint.
Abstraction is the style that feeds my soul and allows me best to express myself; my primary source of inspiration is my daily life and is not conjugated in the first person. In my painting, I translate the problems of a people and a voiceless world.
My goal is to contribute without any pretension with elegance and satisfaction to a global contemporary painting.

See the full article in Art Market Magazine Issue #75