Alain Séraphine

Alain Séraphine is a Artiste Plasticien, Politician and Urbaniste French born in 1951 with the Port, with the Réunion. Inventor of the term “implied artist”, it regards his political and urban work as forming integral part of his step.

The artist contemporary plastics technician

The policy town planner developer

Assistant of the city of the Port of 1983 with 2001 and first assistant as of 1990 it worked under the mandates of Paul Vergès, Pierre Vergès and Jean-Yves Langenier. Responsible for the culture and the town planning of this city as of its first election, he took an active part in the design of the current layout and to come as well as opening on the harbor enclosure from the Port from the Point from the Rollers. He is since president of the authority of evaluation of the city, adviser on the questions of installation. Man of ground, it is in the creation of activity that its political work takes all its direction.

The creator of institutions and companies

Man of ground, it is in the creation of activity that its political work takes all its direction. He is indeed:

the founder of the Portois Workshop in 1977.
the founder of association Village Titan in 1983.
the founder and Director of the University of the Art schools of the Meeting, higher establishment approved by the ministry for the Culture in 1991.
Founds in 1993 the Carrefour of the image of the Indian Ocean, biennial devoted to NTIC.
the founder and President of the Institute of the image of the Indian Ocean, establishment of higher education in professional training specialized in the image and NTIC created in 1994.
the founder and Managing director (1995 - 2001) of the Company of mixed economy Pipangaï created in 1995 with the support of the industrialist Abdé Ali Goulamaly. It is the most important movie studio of animation of Europe with more than 200 employees whom the president Jacques Chirac visited in person at the time of an official arrival in the island.
the president of the Conservatory national of arts and trades of the Meeting.
the treasurer of the Kabardock, theater of the city of the Port.
the chairman and managing director of the Market of the Manifestations of the city of the Port, this two equipment belonging to its work of definition and programming of the cultural policy of the city.

The painter, sculptor

Painter and Sculptor, it made his studies with the university of the Art schools of Toulouse from where it left in 1975 with the congratulations and the only special mention the national jury " for its engagement pédagogique" , jury to which Henri Cueco leader of the Co-operative of Malassis belongbelonged. Bathed in the movements " alive Art " and " Supports/Surfaces " while taking part in particular in the festival of contemporary art into 1972,1973 and 1974 at the La Rochelle, Montauban and with the ENSAD of Toulouse. Séraphine starts its artistic career in south-west and will realize in the capacity as assistant of Yvon Aubinel, artist decorator, some works of order before taking again the plane for its native area. During its artistic course, it will make outstanding meetings as well of creativity as of friendship, one can quote among those, Sarah Maldoror, Didier Chamizo, Pierre Ayma, Sebastião Salgado, ARIANE Mnouchkine, Fabio Calvetti, Toni Grand, Roger Pic, Willy Ronis, Claude Sauvageot… His step d'" artist implied " plunge the artist in the center of the social life, community life and participative. One could compare it with a Fabrice Hybert surfant on the administrative strings of the State, to create a company which would become “work”. But Alain Séraphine seeks him to make emerge the work of this " device associatif" , partition installation by the artist. Work is carried out in situ generally under the glance of the inhabitants of the district or the city for which it is intended. They will give him a name, will live it, make it live. The artist organizing and creating job for the company, work can thus be only monumental, beyond the institutions and companies which it creates or which its step made emerge here are some of most known:

the fresco of two hundred square meters of the wax museum of Heavy, in 1974.
Exposure Palate of Arts of Toulouse 1975.
the Ceramic fresco in thirty height meters on the frontage of the seat of the Social security of the town of Saint-Denis, in 1975.
sculptures out of wood of tamarin four meters height located at the entry of the town hall of the Port, in 1976.
tapestry of one hundred square meters of the room of council of the town hall of the Port, in 1976.
both " Carpet begging " of six meters height by four meters broad, in 1977.
the metal Docker of the River of the Rollers 1977.
man-birds of the roundabout of the River of the Rains.
Exposure " Towards an art impliqué" , Palate Rontaunay 1982.
metal dancers, shrouds, then stone dancers of the Roundabout of the dancers of the city of the Port. Artistic performances of 1981 with 1995.
" sculpture with the Meeting " Exposure to the district council of Saint-Denis of the Meeting 1986.
mosaic of several hundred square meters recovering the hall of the college of Vincendo, with Saint-Joseph.
" Métissage" Plastic demonstration with the Village Titan 1990.
" Crankshafts " at the entry of the Port 1995 Is city.
Exposure " Bwadébène ", with the artothèque of the General advice of the Meeting in 1998 where work out of basalt and wooden of ebony " was exposed; the Beginning ".
monumental Exposure of almost one hundred sculptures, the Tribe of the Wood of breadth which was held in a store of the Port of the Point of the Rollers, that where his/her father worked, spaces of a surface of 5000 m ², in 1997.
Meeting of family , a sculpture in tree fern, wood of tamarin and hones of more than one ton belonging to the patron réunionnais Ramany.
two sculptures out of wood and composite present at the seat of SFR, in 1998.
immense sculpture out of coral of Artothèque of Saint-Denis, 1998.
Insane I era , sculpture in Fanjan with the seat of the District council of the Meeting, in 1999.
the Installation of the Vladimir theater To lay, with the University of the Meeting, in 1999.

The designer

Inventive of the furnace portois, ultra-economic device of cooking allowing to decrease deforestation.
Designer of the costumes and Scenographer several concerts of Ziskakan, group of his/her friend Gilbert Pounia.
Originator of the Casanoé , proceeded of construction simplified of the habitat.
Author of a catalog of more than thousand models of pieces of furniture out of wooden.
Designer of the whole of furniture out of invaluable wooden of SIVOMR (today operating burnup, turn of eight stages).

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