Leonel Jules
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Biography
Circular Rhythm
Mixed Media
24" x 20"
Leonel Jules has a background in Art History and additional studies in semiotics, plastic arts teaching and literary studies. Originally from Haiti, he Montreal has been his home for several years.
He has held several exhibitions in Montreal, Nantes, New York, Paris, and Guadeloupe. His works of art are part of several public and private collections, such as the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Joliette Museum, the Martineau Walker Collection; the National Bank of Canada Collection, the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, the Provigo Collection in Montreal, and several private collections in Germany, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Miami, Switzerland, Monte Carlo and Haiti.
Among other achievements, he worked in the development of the Montreal exhibition of the Trames International Group Travelling Show which also included his work. In 1997 he participated in the production of the 1998 "L'Agend'Art Internal" that represents the Afro-American and Hispanic artistic expression. Always passionate by education, he has carried out many art-related projects with schools in Montreal.
Artist's Statement
After several years of studying the synthesis of colour, there is a return to a range of varied and warm colours. Always within the framework of an exploration of light, in a metaphorical evocation of luminosity, yellow in contact with black generates a greenish earthy colour that is woven into a background.
All this becomes fertile ground. Action, both lyric and automatic, is inherited from surrealist behaviour. The pictorial script resulting from the very gesture of art is nourished both by the automatic action ─ degree zero in pictorial script ─ inherited from Western culture and by the pleasure of artistic practice, an aspect that finds expression in Black Art.
A crossbreeding of these two tendencies, my work translates — in a subtly spiritual serenity — a whole variety of formal elements welded together by a kind of structural identity characterized by colour and ideogram. The production of these forms is carried out in an authentically human framework that affirms their strength, stability and spiritual specificity.