TIGA
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Gran
Atis Pent Ayisyen Jean Claude Garoute,
alyas Tiga,
mouri nan Eta Florid, Ozetazini. Yon Omaj Sèvis Kreyòl
Lavwadlamerik la
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Lyonel Desmarattes - Washington
DC - 17-12-2006
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Nouvèl la tonbe tankou youn kout zeklè nan yon syèl
kalm, jedi 14 desanm pase a pou fè konnen atis pent ayisyen Jean Claude
Garoute, alyas Tiga, rann dènye soupi li nan vil Fort Lauderdale, nan eta
Florid, Ozetazini. Li te antoure avèk manm fanmi li, sitou 2 pititfi li yo,
Pascale ak Claude. Li te genyen 71 zan. Nou di
nouvèl la tonbe "tankou yon kout loray", paske, menmsi atis la
pa t pote l byen depi kèk mwa, gen sektè ki te espere li ta pral retounen
sou sèn nan pou l kontinye travay kote li t ap aprann jenès ayisyèn nan
renmen peyi li e apresye eritaj kiltirèl peyi a, Ayiti. Nan okazyon sa
a, Lavwad'lamerik ap rann 2 omaj angiz youn (Ti Koze ak Rankont) pou gwo
potomitan sa a nan penti ayisyèn nan ki kite yon gwo vid nan fanmi atis
ayisyen yo.
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With
great emotion, daughters Klode and Pascal show the Presidential
Certificate and Medal of Honor given by the Republic of Haiti, signed by
President Rene Preval on November 22.
This Honor and Merit certificate was presented by a delegation to Tiga
at his hospital bedside. It refers to him as "Commandeur."
Here are Tiga's grandchildren, (center left) Vladimir Michel and Alex
Prosper
photo : Heritage
Konpa Magazine, Inc.
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| 1935 |
- Né à Port-au-Prince le 9 décembre, Jean-Claude Garoute a grandi à Jérémie
(Grand’Anse) jusqu’à l’âge de six ans avant d'être envoyer
à Port-au-Prince.
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| 1945 |
- Très attaché au jumeau de sa mère Hamilton Garoute, grand
poète de Jérémie, déjà père de deux garçons Hans et Robert,
TiGa découvre l'argile et s'en empare tout comme il pense que
l'argile s'est emparé de la terre, il se lance dans un grand voyage
mystique à la conquête du céramique
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1959 |
- Premiered in Port-au-Prince, Haiti "Musee de Ceramic” a section of
Amerindean- Indian, Pre Columbian, International Artisan.
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| 1964 |
- Through his researches of the "VEVES"
(symbols of spiritual invocation) he offered what was instilled in him as the voice of prudence. He would say that man has to detach himself from conventional methods taught to him throughout his education if he wants to remain a
creator.
In Haiti the culture is always alive!
- Tiga would always say " I found my art amid my people". When the art spirit has penetrated a nation, its people are neither ignorant nor
illiterate.
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| 1966 |
- This concept know as "Nouvelle École" (the new school) was consecrated at Dakar, Senegal during the first world festival of Black Art.
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| 1968 |
- He founded in Port-au-Prince, a cultural center called Poto-Mitan to express the
"Nouvelle École"
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Tiga established schools, he set up a Museum. as he discovered that all arts are connected simultaneously. To have them in his experiments, Tiga, the alchemist sought the help of the mentally ill. He consulted Erasmus; he climbed the central pillar of Voodoo cult. He didn't stop at Calfour. He went to the peasants at Soisson La Montagne.
His companion in this new adventure: Maude Robard.
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| 1970 |
- A Soisson-la-Montagne dans les hauteurs de Kenscoff, il entreprend avec d’autres peintres, la construction d’un atelier sur le terrain qu’ils avaient acheté à Soisson la Montagne. Tiga a cultivé des relations étroites avec les ouvriers et les paysans du coin.
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- Le groupe initial de peintres, formé de Exil Leroy, Louisiane
Saint-Fleurant, Denis Smith et Prospère Pierre-Louis, a pris le nom de
"Saint-Soleil" et s’est adonné à une peinture qui s’est démarquée de celle dite naïve, pour constituer une forme d’art sacré très libre.
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"Tiga"
-Membre du mouvement Saint Soleil
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Tiga became the Great Priest of Saint Soleil; the profoundly earthy alchemist, the lover of clay, turned towards the sun. Tiga made the Sun a Saint with its icons, its liturgy and its practitioners.
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| 1974 |
- Première Exposition Saint-Soleil au musée d’Art haïtien
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- "Another guru attended the birth of this experiment. He is called
André Malraux and he wrote: 'The most striking and the only controllable experiment in magic painting in our century.'"
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| 1975 |
- Ces artistes du mouvement Saint-Soleil « peignent comme il leur plaît ce qu’ils ne représentent pas », soulignera André Malraux lors de sa visite en Haiti
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Visite d'André
Malraux
à Soisson en 1976
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| 1976 |
- Second meeting with Andre Malraux to then meet Jerzy Grotowski during a dinner at Andre Gregory. Jerry was a play director who arranged the program for his 1984 experience at Irving University (a branch of UCLA).
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| 1983 |
- Invited to attend the "Odin-Theatre experiment", he stayed there for one year.
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| 1984 |
- In California, USA with the Traditions program at Irvine University.
He then stayed at Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts were he presented with Barbara Wallace: "Poème a Point" (Poem with point) and work around the experiment of vocal drum
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| 1985 |
- Return to Haiti were he developed his own technique of "Soleil Brule" (Burn Sun). That year he held the first exhibit of Soleil Brule at the house of Doctor Simphard Bontemps in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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| 1988 |
- He opened the KAYTIGA cultural center at Bourdon Park, Haiti.
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| 1989 |
- Group Exhibit, Black and White, where he reunited twenty-three Haitian artists in the exhibit title "Tiga la Fleche" (Tiga the Arrow).
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| 1990 |
- Presentation of "Abstract Art" during an exhibit at the Pantheon National Museum (MUPANAH).
- Participated at the second festival of Caribbean film at Fort de France, Martinique, where he presented "l'œil du Soleil" (the Eye of the Sun) and his recent work.
- Exhibited with Gerard Hyppolite at the "Musée D'art Haïtien" of College Saint Pierre (Haitian Art Museum).
- He exhibited at Galerie Marassa, Petion-Ville Haiti, "Touch of different mediums: Acrylic, Ink and (Aquarelle) Watercolor".
- He exhibited at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lille, France, a collections exhibit titled "Fondation Septentrion de Anne et Albert Prouvost" at Château du Vert Bois, Lille, France.
- To cap the year, he held the introduction of seven new Haitian artists at the "Centre D'art Haïtien (Haitian Art Center) Port-Au-Prince Haiti". The seven new artists had reached the third level of the program "L’œil du Soleil (The Eye of the Sun)".
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| 1991 |
- Group exhibit at Galerie Marassa with Dodard and Mevs at Petion-Ville, Haiti
- Visions: III, a group exhibit with Phillippe Dodard and Mevs in collaboration with Galerie Marassa and Len De Pas Art Gallery at Washington D.C.
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| 1992 |
- Kaytiga presents "Grafitti Tiga"
- Group Show (Symbolism of the Cross) Honoring Gerard Liautaud at "Musee D'art Haïtien du College St Pierre (Haitian Art Museum)".
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| 1993 |
- The French Institute in Haiti present Tiga Retrospect 1945-1993
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| 1994 |
- Hypolite and Tiga at "Les Salons Hypolite, Haiti.
- Recipient of the Gold Medal at Second Biennal, held at the museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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| 1995 |
- Michèle Alfred presents " Soleil Brule de Tiga / Les Tableau de Tiga " at Chez Gerard, Port-au-Prince Haiti.
- The same year he participated in a group show "Trois Artistes Trois Perceptions" at the Pantheon Museum, Haiti.
- The same year still he had the book Illustration of "Poème a point (Poem with Points)" with Barbara Wallace at Brewster Massachusetts, USA
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| 1996 |
- Dodard and Tiga, Port-au-Prince Haiti
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| 1998 |
- Mupanah and the French Institute. Tiga and Onel "Rendez-vous de L'erdre, France".
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| 1999 |
- Hypolite and Tiga in "Tiga Soleil Brule Apocalipse" at the Art Museum, Haiti.
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| 2000 |
- Collaborated with Jivan Fine Jewelry "Transcendence Pin"
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| 2001 |
- Tiga and Dodard in "La Descente aux enfers" at Galerie Marassa.
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| 2001 |
- Un court métrage retraçant la vie et l’œuvre de Tiga a été réalisé par le cinéaste haïtien Arnold Antonin. Ce film documentaire s’intitule « Tiga-Haïti : Rêve, possession, création, folie ».
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| 2002 |
- “Anges ou Follies “ Galerie Nader, Haiti
- Group show " Trois Artist Trois Perspective" Museum Pantheon National, Haiti
- Award for excellence at Le Plaza Hotel, Port-au-Prince Haiti
- KlodeArt presented Tiga and Klode at St Bernard School, New York, NY, USA
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| 2003 |
- Galerie Nader Inaugurated with Ibobel, an exhibit of Tiga's paintings at Coral Gables Florida, USA
- Exhibit "Haiti Manman Nou" Adria Hotel Queens, N.Y. USA
- Illustration of three book covers "Histoire de Toussaint L'ouverture by Horace Pauleus Sanon.
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- Action foundation presented HAITI 1804-2004 from a Legacy of Freedom to an Explosion of Culture. Featured Art in Motion Installation by renowned Haitian Master TIGA in Partnership with the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Tiga together with his daughter Klode held numerous clinics of his Artistic Rotation system at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. USA
- Tiga participated in the project Foire de la Montagne at Vallue, Petit Goave Haiti. The project was a not for profit event held by the villagers association of Vallue.
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- Récemment décoré au grade de Commandeur de l'Ordre et Mérite par le président René Préval, selon les explications de l’Architecte Daniel Élie, Ministre de la culture et de la communication, qui
se félicitait en affirmant que « c’était une grande satisfaction pour Tiga ».
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| 2006 |
- Le 14 décembre il décède dans un centre hospitalier à Miami à l’âge de 71
ans.
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- Le thème « Solèy Leve » retenu pour le Carnaval 2007, en Haïti, s’inspire de l’un des tableaux de Prospère Pierre-Louis (peintre du mouvement
Saint-Soleil) représentant une femme qui enveloppe le soleil avec ses
bras
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Tiga tried to save popular Haitian painting from folklore and the condescendence of the West, but Tiga wanted to go back to the original sources.
Tiga was not content to force the future; he wanted to recover the past, the beginning. He wanted to unify time by joining the two impossible ends, Alpha and Omega. He looked for the ADN end of the dinosaurs before "Jurassic Park". For him, the source is: childhood.
Tiga so gathered the children, sons of peasants or city folks, sons of proletariat or bourgeois.
Tiga carried his experiments far beyond the borders of the end of the island. He exhibited in Senegal, in France, in Belgium, in Italy, in the Scandinavian countries, in the United Stated, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, Martinique, Trinidad, Morocco, Algeria and Djibuti. He theorized as always. The adept of automatism and of spontaneous creation never stopped theorizing.
Tiga made a theory of artistic rotation and the laboratory of creation. Tiga is a volcano, he wants to explode all of the senses and in every direction he explodes. He wants to express the veritable essence of things, beyond reality. He wants to understand and explain the secrets that unite the worlds. He wants to re-invent all the symbols and science of his people, he practices automatic writing. He only believes in spontaneity. He does everything backwards, and the opposite of opposites.
Tiga, after Mata, Lam and Davertige is the last of the great surrealists. Everything is real and possible in America.
He doesn't want to be contained in any mold: " I belong to no school". Tiga believes that we are all madmen who should be liberated. Tiga wants to transform everything into a work of art.
He wants to people his imaginary Museum, which is the whole of this end of the Island. Tiga, the High Priest of improvisation, is also a dramatic artist. Conceives ballets, composes songs and sings.
But his songs and the songs he writes are traditional melodies. He likes, he loves the melodious music of Rachmaninoff. He writes the lyrics to his music. He is hardly at all interested in Gerald Merceron, the composer whose work in the musical field at the end of this island is the closest to that Tiga does in the plastic arts.
Wall painting and collective painting took a special place in the dreams of Tiga. He wanted to have frescoes that the people could appropriate. He went to Place Geffrard, in the heart of the old town. He made a wall mosaic with three hundred and thirty three pieces. Everybody passing by could stop and admire it. But the Plaza has been occupied, as almost all of the country is by street merchants selling anything you can imagine and by the stalls of other sellers. The mosaic was completely covered with worn-out Persian tapestry. You only can see it at nightfall, when the peddlers put their merchandise away and there is nobody there to look at it.
Unless Tiga comes by. Beauty for him is the same as for the surrealists: the descent of the marvelous among us. Surrealism is incarnated in Tiga and became his life. But Tiga is the seeker with his hands and feet dusty from traveling. He keeps on exploring. The volcano has found its perfect spot, from which to have the lava of its eternal anxiety flow out.
They are burned suns, a name that designates the product of his new experiment. It is post-Saint Soleil to indicate that one has to go even farther to transcend the attitude, to carry a torch that will shine at the highest temperature in the very midst of the sun that he wanted to set on fire.
He created clothing for the sunned bodies of the Creole women who haunt his nights and his work. Tiga, Pygmalion, magician, wants to be a total artist.
He has not forgotten Grutowsky, who was his friend. And what if Tiga is quite simply one of the great painters of this epoch?.
The child whose spirit has never been broken in spite of the desertion of his father, in spite of the fact his uncle, Colonel and poet gave the First Prize to someone else at a Ceramic Contest, in spite of the fact that this uncle was kidnapped and brutally assassinated in the jails of Papa Doc-Ubu. This child, protected by endless words about everything and everywhere This child continues to try putting the anxiety of his exploded world on canvas and attempts to unify it.
Every night I told a story to my daughter. It was an episode of the adventures that I shared with an old man, a magician with ebony black skin and a long white beard. Between intergalactic voyages and long visits under the sea, he stopped over when everybody was sleeping. Using his beard as a flying carpet, together we traveled to the mysterious grotto to read the book of his
adventures.
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Haïti, Sur un des bouts d'une île de la Caraïbe, dominée par la folie et le chaos, existe un artiste philosophe. Son rêve: faire que tous les habitants de cette terre trouvent le créateur caché en eux et atteignent la liberté. Pour cela, il prend à bras-le-corps la folie du pays et en assume les délires. Tiga, l'un des plus grands peintres d'Haïti et des Caraïbes, se veut un artiste total. Son nom et sa vie sont intimement liés à toute l'histoire contemporaine de l'art haïtien.
Centre Petion-Bolivar
cpb@haitiworld.com -
(509) 257-6748
From his beloved Josette Jean-Joseph
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for Pi-Kliz productions :
9 décembre 1935 - 14 décembre 2006
In his own right, he is an art animator, a painter, poet, musician, erg-therapist, and a
ceramist.
Tiga believes that in order for man to understand the deep sense of creation, one's inner self must be united with everything that stimulates creativity. He has developed a method known as "Artistic Rotation ".
For a very long time, he has experimented this method throughout Haiti. He has worked with adults, children, adolescents, the mentally ill, the villagers, the educated and the illiterate. Through his method, he believes that one must have total freedom of expression, be in touch with the various technical supports that simultaneously bring together human senses and human concept.
He used instruments such as drums, color paint, clay, rocks and other sensing elements of sight, touch, and
feel.
Tiga did his final 45 sketches while in bed at Imperial Point Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
He used the only tools he had available to him: a ballpoint pen and
paper.
''He used a series of ink dots to create his last images, as he could not paint,'' said Garoute, who said having nostalgic talks with Haitian staffers at Imperial Point Medical Center kept him
going.
On Dec. 14, surrounded by family and friends, Tiga passed away.
''My father had suffered for seven months, but refused to show his pain,'' said Garoute, who praised Imperial Point for its care of her
father.
Tiga's remains were cremated last week. A party was held in his honor Sunday at Jakmel Art Gallery in Miami.
''He didn't want a funeral, he wanted a celebration, and we gave him that,'' said Garoute, who said 80 of his family and friends praised the late artist and his
work.
This Saturday, another celebration of Tiga's life will take place in
Haiti.
His daughter and her three siblings will bring their father's ashes to the celebration service.
Haitian President Rene Preval is scheduled to attend.
Then in February, Carnival in Haiti will be dedicated to Tiga and the art movement he helped found, said
Garoute.
''What we have lost with Tiga's passing is painful,'' said Boucicaut. ``But what we have gained through Tiga's life is
infinite.''
Posted on Tue, Dec. 19, 2006-Jean Claude Garoute, 71: Haitian artist known as
Tiga
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BY ROBERTO SANTIAGO
rsantiago@MiamiHerald.com
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Il est entré dans l'histoire par la porte de
notre cœur.
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