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Caca Soleil , 1970 I discovered Hervé Telemaque in New York some years ago when I had been there specifically for the Abstract Expressionism (particularly that of Aschile Gorky and Willem De Kooning). I was bowled over by De Kooning’s women so Telemaque took second place. Telemaque is Haitian and was very mixed up about his identity. I would think that there had been a pervasive racism which intensified his sense of rootlessness. Much of his work is full of emotions in deleted signs, furious words and enigmatic pictograms. From the titles, we discover that there is a sexual anxiety. However, reading a title and then looking at the picture I found it quite difficult to associate the two. Fonds, d'actualité N°, 2002 Toussaint, L'ouverture à New York, 1960 J'ai appris la nouvelle, 1960 Histoire sexuelle,1960 L'annonce faite à Marie, 1959 Autoportrait, 2002 Le moine comblé, 2014 La Séancière 1, 1996 Chauve-souris, 1