EVENS ARCELIN | THE GENESIS OF ALL PERFECT ORDER
Acrylic, Collage on canvas. 152 x 152 cm.
“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 about the white surface without touching it before starting to work. Many of my 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 listening to my mind while trying to figure out the drawing; the process can be long, depending on what was found 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 frees me and allows me best to express myself; I translate the current people’s problems and a voiceless world in my painting.”
-Evens Arcelin
Acrylic on canvas. 152 x 152 cm © All rights reserved.
Evens Arcelin was born and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, practicing 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.
Mixte Média on canvas. 101 x 101 cm.
152 x 101 cm.
Acrylic, Collage on canvas. 152 x 121 cm.
Arcelin’s artistic career began in 1995. First, he attended several artists’ studios in his community. Then, in February 1996, he joined the workshops of his older 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 for the “Save the Museum” exhibition with the committee Toussaint Louverture at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery in New York.
Acrylic on canvas. 121 x 121 cm.
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.
His abstraction is the strength of his spiritual thoughts; his research focuses on all living entities of nature.
