Marc Latamie

Latamie’s artistic works mainly refers to History, to Art History and also the complexity of Human kind History. On some occasions he will consider the issues of globalization, how, for example, the World Trade has affected the populations in transit.[1]

In 2012, in his most recent exhibition at the Americas Society in New York,[2] Latamie displayed a reenactment of the turn of the 19th century, where the devastating use of Absinth became a substitute for artists and poets just before WW1. Latamie grew up in Martinique where absinth was considered a natural beverage that never fell under the regime of French Prohibition [3]

Since moving to New York in 1987, Marc Latamie has selectively participated in some museums and biennales exhibitions around the globe. From the 23rd São Paulo Biennale, or El Centro de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas in 1994, to the MoMA-Queens “Tempo” exhibition in 2002,[4] he has always refused to be involved in the general field of galleries exhibitions.

His latest work is part of the Caribbean Crossroads of the World at the PAMM (Perez Art Museum Miami).[5]

Over the last 25 years, several editors have also featured Latamie’s artwork in contemporary art, as in “Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation” edited by Gilane Tawadros,[6][7] or in Gert Oostindie's book, “Facing Up to the Past: Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe.”[8]

In his earlier years in Paris, Marc Latamie has been part of the first team of Lecturers at the National Museum of Art - Centre Pompidou (Paris), and for l’Ecole du Louvre (Paris). Since 1998, Latamie has been a Visiting Professor at Cooper Union in NY, invited by Hans Haacke,[9] and for several years a Visiting Scholar at New York University.[10] Latamie would on occasions participate in lecturers at Columbia University, U-Mass Boston, and several Art Schools across Europe and the Caribbean.