About Victor Anicet Ceramics Artist

Anicet a seeker of shadows a restorer and rejuvenator of the past and a diligent scholar creates works of art that bring objects and symbols from the culture of his amerindian ancestors to life for the modern world.

About victor anicet ceramics artist.

A highly acclaimed french caribbean artist and ceramist victor anicet studied in france germany england and martinique. He was a popular ceramic artist in the mid 19th century. He has made some of the best ceramic articles by giving them a modernized touch. That is why his artworks are usually getting the form of human heads but then again he is often presenting some of the objects for human use such as plates wine bottles or shoes.

Using 24k gold she affixes the mismatched pieces together breathing new life into otherwise overlooked materials. The internationally recognized french caribbean artist and ceramist victor anicet describes martinique s history and presents his art work in a lively conversation. The way in which he tries to elaborate the traces of the multiple and forgotten cultural pasts artefacts and arts of the creolizing caribbean starting from the amerindians and then the african slaves and the indian labourers etc not only to recover a lost past but to offer these. He achieves his signature.

Inspired by the ancient kintsugi craft korean artist yee sookyoung repurposes discarded ceramic fragments into experimental works of art. He speaks about his childhood the horrors of slavery in the caribbean the french educational system and his training as an artist. The atelier of victor anicet. During our research trip to martinique we had the great opportunity to meet victor anicet a very important painter and ceramist living in shoelcher.

He was a great friend and fellow of édouard glissant. With victor anicet ann armstrong scarboro. Victor anicet martinican ceramist artist and historian. Victor anicet kindly and passionately showed us his atelier and his work telling us the story of his development as an artist and explaining the origins and the aesthetic implications of his vision and art.

This internationally recognized ceramist who studied in france england and germany as well as martinique gave this interview during a show of his work at the université antilles guyane in november 2001. Originally a formally trained printmaker and painter this multitalented brooklyn based artist found success in his hand built slab constructed ceramic vessels. His sculptures and paintings create a dynamic perspective of history including the spanish conquest of the caribbean islands the horrors of slavery and caribbean culture.