Extension to 23th Octobre 2017

With Celebration by Llewellyn Xavier, Fondation Clement invites you to broaden and deepen your experience of abstract painting. Following the 50 historic museum pieces that were shown, last January,  in the exhibition entitled Le Geste et la Matière, presented in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, you are invited to discover the recent creations of Llewellyn Xavier which are part of the Caribbean abstract movement. 
The journey of the artist took him from St. Lucie to London, Toronto, New-York and some of his work is today in prestigious collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, MOMA, VIC and AL in London among others. 
Back in his native country, he devotes himself to the glorification and the sublimation of Caribbean nature through an abstraction of matter. He explores several methods of working, from a large and fluid gesture like that of Paul Jenkins to surfaces that are heavily structured by thick matter. 
His pictoiral practice associates certain characteristics of abstract expressionism  and impressionism. 
At first, he uses the 'all over' and  expression through the gesture, colour and matter. 
Secondly, the rendering of variation and fugitive shimmering of light by the juxtaposition of colours. 
The matter and above all the colour are the fundamental components of the pictorial style of Llewellyn Xavier.

Dominique Brebion, curator