Great News! Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, is thrilled to announce the acquisition into the ‘Art Bridges Foundation’ of the piece “Lost at Sea”, by Haitian Master Edouard Duval-Carriè.(Courtesy of LOR Gallery). After being exhibited in multiple cultural institutions across the United States, the remarkable artwork will now be a part of the museum’s permanent collection, which receives over six-hundred thousand visitors every year.
“Lost at Sea” by Edouard Duval Carriè, 2014, Mixed media on aluminum, 94h x 144w in, (238.76h x 365.76w cm) has been exhibited in the following museums: • Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida. • Molaa (Museum of Latin American Art) Long Beach CA • Wallach Gallery Columbia, New York, NY • Frost Museum FIU Miami, FL • Portland Museum of Art Portland, ME • Delaware Museum of Art Wilmington, DE.
Edouard Duval-Carrié, Lost at Sea, 2014, Mixed media on aluminum, 94h x 144w in, 238.76h x 365.76w cm
This artwork is part of a series of works called Imagined Landscapes that was originally created in 2014 for an exhibition at the Perez Art Museum Miami titled, "From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié", it was a response to the landscape of the Caribbean and Latin America as an attempt in the 19th-century post-Monroe Doctrine to reevaluate and reassess the landscape of nations to the South of the US.
In this body of work, Edouard Duval-Carrie tries to revisit the work of artists such as the ones from the Hudson Schools which were part of this program. Lost at Sea simultaneously references the land as a wondrous paradise, through the idyllic setting of trees and calm waters with silver highlights, and a latent menace, as suggested by the presence of a black man in the water who makes direct eye contact with the viewer. At the exhibit, the PAMM bought two of the pieces from the series, in which one is part of their permanent collection and the other exhibited at the Perez Family Foundation new space. Six of the others from the series were later sold to Miami International Airport. Lastly, the Berg En Dahl Africa Museum in Holland bought one of the pieces as well.
“I’m the kind of artist which believes in the power of the image and anything to render and frame the work as to make it more powerful the better . For the Imagined Landscape series I envisaged, as the work were quite large to eliminate the frames which are part and parcel of my work.
But I could not resist the idea and came up with this solution of framing that group of work with this rather peculiar material . It is not sand by the way but rather what they call micro pellets which are used to create styrofoam. They are literally microscopic plastic balloons which when heated blow up to create the styrofoam. Their interest is that they are very light and floated when dispersed in the acrylic resin and as a border they formed a cloudy border which I thought was very Venetian in style and effect. Remember the work was conceived as a “galerie des glaces”. I have used this on frames and also in paintings as the effect, though random, I manage to control and feel that it does have a moody , atmospheric and cloud like appearance which feels as if the paintings were piercing through a cloudy sky. A bit of poetic license which was not readily perceived as what was intended!”
