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Gélin BUTEAU
The artist worked as a fisherman and in a factory in Port-au-Prince until it was closed during the embargo of the early 1990s. This circumstance led him to refocus on painting, with the encouragement of the Bourbon-Lally Gallery, among others. A rising star of the current generation of Haitian artists, Gélin Buteau died in July 2000. His brilliant, fantastic and often disturbing vision will be missed. Buteau's work has been exhibited internationally, including the exhibition "Error and Eros: Sacred And Profane Love" at the American buy Visionary Art Museum (1998), and is published in Artists in Haiti: Cent D'Others (1997) and Haiti: Angels and Demons (2000), among others.

Painting on Masonite