Evens Ferdilus: triple threat
Favorite Quote: "Le succès appartient
à ceux qui savent le preparer"
Success comes to those who know how to prepare it- Unknown.
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Evens Ferdilus: Short Bio
Age: 29 Born: Gonaives
Resides: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Education: High School:College St-Pierre; ENARTS,
INAGHEI
Milestones: Started painting in 1994; participated
in 5 major exhibits
Other: Wants
to start an Art Gallery; works as a spiritual mentor
for young Christian children
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 Evens
Ferdilus is not what you would call a prolific painter. By
his own admission, he has painted far fewer than a hundred
works between 1994 and now. Yet, his sense of perfection has
resulted in a work ethic that pushed him to make every one
of his paintings as successful as possible.
That dedication also allowed him
to achieve a style that is coherent, original and colorful.
Using the theme of Environment as the focal point of his works,
Ferdilus paints with dark, cold, blues and greens and lugubrious
reds, social and natural problems that area as as Haitian
as the red and blue flag. His images combine semi-realistic
faces or body parts with all sorts of everyday objects and
imaginary shapes sharing space and even volume in a manner
reminiscent of the incongrous volumes of Escher: A guitar
would all of a sudden twist and transform itself into a 2-dimensional
bridge. In many works, he uses shreds of paint that peel off
to reveal another space or another time. Yet, those are no
simple artifice for they contribute in reinforcing the idea
of the work.
Ferdilus' work gives something
of an impression of Dali, but with more chaos and irrationality.
His dreamscapes are not meant to be pleasant for the most
part but rather to inspire, puzzle, encourage puzzling, and
in some cases, cause alarm. Ferdilus cites among his chief
influences, Jean-René Jérome and Rose-Marie
Desruisseaux, but no Salvador Dali. Evens Ferdilus has great
hopes for Haitian art that he considers underappreciated or
falsely represented.
With no further words, let's go
the gallery for some of Ferdilus'
paintings.
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