MéTURA

Artiste|Peintre

MéTURA

Born in France to Caribbean parents, MéTURA’s creative drive is based on the observation of nature, humans and cosmogony. Through observation, he has the unique ability to create paintings that seek harmony in the whole. MéTURA’s work offers visibility, multiplicity and diversity of meaning, allowing the viewer to rotate and/or juxtapose his works. His work provides an anthem that initiates, erases and wipes out space by transmitting the viewer to engage within himself to ex-polish its foundation.

MÉTURA holds a E.R.A.P.M. from the Regional School of Plastic Arts of Martinique, Department of Art, Specialization in Painting, C.I.P. (Plastic Initiation Certificate), C.E.S.A.P. (Higher Certificate of Expression of Plastic Arts), D.N.A.P. (National Diploma of Plastic Arts), D.N.S.E.P. (Higher National Diploma in Plastic Expressions at ERAPM) and C.A.P.E. (Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam Diploma).

MÉTURA has participated in international cultural exchanges with the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I.) in Guadeloupe and Panama, Prize of the General Council, the DRAC GUADELOUPE in Paris, France, and the Third Havana Biennial with ERAPM and DRAC (Regional Director of Cultural Affairs) in Cuba. MéTURA’s work has exhibited in Martinique, France, Guadeloupe, Guyane and the United States. In 2022, MéTURA’s artwork from his Hint of Illusions subseries was exhibited in Miami, Florida in the international exhibition, Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive and in 2023, his solo exhibition, Double Vision will be on exhibited in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Founder and Chief Curator of D.V.C.A.I., articulates MéTURA’s artwork with these words, “…MéTURA believes his paintings serve to connect “the human dimension to its rightful reality in the cosmos.” His abstract works seek to make visible the fraught histories, and inexplicable effervescence of the Antillean region through form and color… In the works in his Hints of Illusions subseries, MéTURA creates diptychs, merging canvases replete with frenetic impressionistic marks, and a palette of hushed tones. His chromatic choices are subtle; gently they beckon us to look more closely, to allow our eyes to follow every line and mark within sight to develop a new understanding of not only the Caribbean, but ourselves and the lands and histories we inhabit.”

Creole is my dance that vibrates and ignites my senses that encompass our history, our thoughts, our forms and colors of life in harmony with diversity. My paintings become molecular - spatial. A link between the infinitely small and the infinitely large connect, as if to situate or bring the human dimension back to its true reality in the cosmos. The understanding must evolve - to detach itself from the human and redesign itself on the scale of Mother Nature... This work of tasks and vaporization aims at that, to destructure.

I arrive at this song of the Universe that vibrates on all things - interior and exterior. I deconstruct the forms, thus drawing a mental alchemy, which operates a calcification, like a molecular song which makes us hear, perceive, the "noise or sound" of the Universe, the only real link, inexpressible but eternal...my painting is quantum. The rest is just a hyphen to connect my humanity.


After putting in incidence of juxtaposed canvases, to form what I called paving stones, I desired to rediscover the continuity of gaze and points of view. Aspired/inspired by working in this manner, as to have a reflection of my inner being in my expression of how I felt the Caribbean gaze…to live the dance of the island. With this vision of multiple axes, both anchored within its being but also in the legitimacy of colonial slavery history and colonial post, the exchange of points of view also turns towards the illusion of multiple horizons. Thus, all my works pivot to offer four to eight directions of readings/viewing/perception/perspectives. It is added given a vision in levitation which moves direction ceaselessly the axis of glance, eliminating the window rebirth.

Then came the COVID marker of my work that I introduced the pulverizations which brought a particular print leaving traces of memory and identity. Arriving now, this will/spirit to make and to build a reverse glance from where the canvases recto verso.

We live in the visible materiality. However, we are spiritual vibrations. Here, now, I pose the question of the nonvisible in a more visible way.
I sketch with this idea – the digitized life.
What path for humanity? The reality of this global pandemic marches the path of the illusion of life, for some it underlines its magnitude. Witnessing our own reflections of life/living, we have the opportunity to discern the visible/invisible as it relates to our own existence. Fragile for man/woman in appearance or not, we are little at the end of the scale of nature, which regulates itself.

The movement of shapes, colors and words, provides another point of view. If we make the time and space to elevate in understanding our connection, we can heal ourselves and our Mother Earth by adopting the harmony of diversity. Within our being, we will learn to see, to hear, to touch, to smell and to taste the richness of our world. A deeper understanding of knowing that the small acts are just as important, will radiant a new horizon of reflections in knowing that the All is already there.

My work during the confinement of the global pandemic, leaves traces of memory and identity. It proposes that you look, where the more/less fortuitous specks are redefined in space and constantly form the look and perception in the image of Our Mother Nature and our relationship with her. What a path, what after-effects. The story that is being conveyed, can be approached from the various fractions of space. The dynamics of our existence and the Nature we are to preserve, can trigger our interconnected journey.
It will enable us with the ability to create and maintain our link - the Source, is always CulmiNation.
MéTURA  
ARTISTE | PEINTRE

BORN IN FRANCE
Lives and works in Guadeloupe | USA

https://www.artiste-peintre-bruno-metura.com
https://dvcai.org/portfolio_page/bruno-metura/
https://www.newdoorcreative.com/double-vision

EDUCATION

1995
C.A.P.E. - Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam Diploma
1991
D.N.S.E.P. – Higher National Diploma in Plastic Expressions at ERAPM
1989
D.N.A.P. – National Diploma of Plastic Arts
1989
C.E.S.A.P. – Higher Certificate of Expression of Plastic Arts
1987
C.I.P. – Plastic Initiation Certificate
1985
E.R.A.P.M. – Regional School of Plastic Arts of Martinique, Department of Art, Specialization in Painting

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2023

Bruno MéTURA: Double Vision - New Door Creative, Main Gallery – Solo exhibition –Baltimore, MD –
(July 9, 2023 – July 29, 2023)
ARTBASEL, Basel, Switzerland (June 15, 2023 – June 18, 2023)
Atlantic World Art Fair/ARTSY – New Door Creative featured artist (June 1, 2023 – June 15, 2023)
Casa Del Arte – Palma, Spain (June 1, 2023 – June 30, 2023 & May 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023)
Finity Gallery, Berlin, Germany – (May 1, 2023 – May 31, 2023)

2022

ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 3.0, Miami, FL, (Created by ARTBOX. PROJECT of Zug/Switzerland - Miami Art Weeks – November 28, 2022 – December 10, 2022)

Le Conteur Et La Relation – Les Kafes de L’Arawak – Group Exhibition - Guadeloupe
(November 24, 2022 – December 11, 2022)

Depth of Identity: Art as Archive and Memory - MÉTURA's Hints of Illusions sub-series presented for the first time - group exhibition representing international artists from around the globe. Exhibition curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace (D.V.C.A.I.) - Miami, FL. (August – October)

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I.) Virtual Art Fair -Special Featured Artist
(December 2022 – January 2023)

2021

Art Basel Miami - Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I.) Virtual Art Fair
Special Featured Artist (November – December)

COVID: Collecting Our Voices in the Caribbean Diaspora – Museum Association of the Caribbean (MAC) – (Group online exhibition representing artists from the Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish and Dutch-speaking Caribbean).

Bruno Métura: Confinement – New Door Creative, Main Gallery – Solo exhibition – U.S. Debut - Baltimore, MD

2018
Maran and His Friends – Espace PAKIT Schoelcher (Maran et ses Amis - Espace PAKIT Schoelcher) - Martinique
Art Fair – Saint Pierre, Martinique

2017
A Leap in the Art (Un Saut dans l’Art) - Saint Benoit du Seau, France

2015
Academician Knight - Mondial Art Academy – France

1992
CARPEAUX Space – Francophonie (Espace CARPEAUX – Francophonie) – Paris, France

1990
Days of La Francophonie in the Americas (Journées de la Francophonie des Amériques) - Martinique

EXHIBITIONS - ERAPM - (Organized by a recognized artist) – (DES EXPOSITIONS– ERAPM - (Organisé par un artiste reconnu) - Fort-de-France, MARTINIQUE

1988

Hospitality Day Congress, La Meynard (Hospital Congrès de la Journée Hospitalière, Hôpital La Meynard)
Retrospective Department Art 87/88 (Rétrospective Département Art 87/88)
Materials and Shapes Ismaël MUNDARAY - (Matière et Formes - Ismaël MUNDARAY)

1987
Roukou (Jean ZUBER)

1986
Locus Solus (Marc LATAMIE)
Trace, Memory, Identity (Alex BURK) – (Trace Mémoire, Identité - Alex BURK)
Against Apartheid (Jacques POLI) – (Contre l’Apartheid - Jacques POLI)

EXHIBITIONS – GUADELOUPE

2023
Pool Art Fair - MéTURA: Safiya Series - Pointe-à-Pitre

2021
COVID: Collecting Our Voices in the Caribbean Diaspora – Museum Association of the Caribbean (MAC) – (Group exhibition representing artists from the Francophone-speaking Caribbean – Guadeloupe and Martinique).

2020
Metamorphosis – Les Murs Galeries and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI)
Aéroport Pôle Caraibes - Pointe-à-Pitre

2019
Accord and Dissonance – Brassierie Lékouz – Goyave
Great Horizons Artists – Saint Anne
Pool Artfair - Pointe-à-Pitre

2018
O ’Vent Art – Espace Fabius - Quartier du Carmel, Basse-Terre
Art + Rhum Festival - Pointe-à-Pitre
OFF - Pointe-à-Pitre
Shadow & Light – House of Illustrious at Simone Schwars-Bart (French novelist and playwright of Guadeloupean origin. She is the winner of the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle) – Goyave

2017
The Ka Bar Center – Morin, Saint Claude, Guadeloupe

2016
Bouvier House – Baillif
INVISIBLE – Lamentin Media Library
The Ka Bar Center – Morin, Saint Claude, Guadeloupe

2015
The Ka Bar Center – Morin, Saint Claude, Guadeloupe

2014
The Ka Bar Center – Morin, Saint Claude, Guadeloupe

2013
Sculptural – Maria, Saint François, Guadeloupe

2011
Tribute Maryse Condé – Caribbean Media Library
retrospective Rupture – Your’s Jarry Baie Mahault
Rupture – Médiathèque du Lamentin

1991
SANTIT – l’OMCS, des Abymes
Festag 91 - The Meeting of Two Worlds
Young Guadeloupean Painting - Galerie Michèle CAZANOVE – Gosier, Guadeloupe

1988
Inauguration of the “Galerie Michèle CAZANOVE – Gosier, Guadeloupe

EXHIBITIONS - THE SENGOA GROUP (DES EXPOSITIONS – LE GROUPE SENGOA - (B. Métura, A. Nabajoth, B. Pedurant, & J. Dabriou) – GUADELOUPE

1988
Dèyè do a zyé - OMCS of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
Happening: K. CANCELIER, L. LEOGANE, F. BELTANT, BRACY, J. LAMPECINADO – Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe

VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS

2020
Hello World: An Art Affair Around the Globe – TransCultural Exchange – United States/Global https://transculturalexchange.org/activities/hw/projects/02/page7.html

Artblog: Artists in the Age of Coronavirus, Part 41 - United States
https://www.theartblog.org/2020/06/artists-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-an-ongoing-virtual-exhibition-part-41/?fbclid=IwAR3e8_kAL2wUrBMb4uri11J3TvRcQURTyqAnJPAlwc2HygL98Y-YBvWQnBU

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES

2021
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I.) International Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) program – Panama

2020
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I.) International Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) program – Guadeloupe

International Exchange Presentation – Les MURS Galeries and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (D.V.C.A.I) KULTOUR Tours – Pôle Caraïbes Société Aéroportuaire - Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

1991
Research and Study - "The Stars of Painting" - Prize of the General Council and of the DRAC GUADELOUPE - Paris, France

1989
Research and Studies - Third Havana Biennial with ERAPM and DRAC (Regional Director of Cultural Affairs) - Cuba

COMPETITIONS

1990
The Stars of Painting - Regional Laureate - Gosier, Guadeloupe
Competition of the C.G.M. - Incentive Prize - Fort-de-France, Martinique

1989
The Stars of Painting - Regional Laureate - Gosier, Guadeloupe

1988
The Stars of Painting - Regional Laureate - Gosier, Guadeloupe

1987
CIDJ competition: Forum of young people who create - Fort-de-France, Martinique

1985
Victor HUGO Competition - Fort-de-France, Martinique

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2006 – Present
C.A.P.E. - Teacher at Joseph Pitat College in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
2004 – 2006
C.A.P.E. - Teacher at Rémire College in Montjoly, Guyane
2002 – 2004
C.A.P.E. - Teacher at Mateliane College in Goyave, Guadeloupe
1996 – 2002
C.A.P.E. - Teacher at Justin Catayé College in Cayenne, Guyane
1995 – 1996
C.A.P.E. - Teacher at Collège Nonnon in Cayenne, Guyane
1994 – 1995
High school teacher - Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe
1993 – 1994
Teacher at the College of Raizet - Abymes, Guadeloupe
1992 – 1993
Teacher at Baie-Mahault College – Guadeloupe
1991 – 1992
Teacher at the Collège de Trois-Rivières – Guadeloupe
ESMECOM (Higher School and Communication Professions)
1990 – 1991
Visual Arts training facilitator - AHPM Martinique - (Artisanat d’Art)
 
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