Schnelange Valcin
Art-Expo Valcin II, Inc
P.O.Box 290947
Tampa Fl 33687
813-263-6345

In the early sixties he went to the Foyer des Arts Plastigues with his helf—brother G4rard Valcin. In 1966 he makes his entrance in the Centre d’Art. He is a naive itainter, very near to nature and to the cuatome of his country, but ready to listen to the voodoo songs and to the 1esone of Mother Nature, who is so beeutiful and so strong in Haiti.
“His mysterious and paradisiac bird8, his strange women with red or pink hair, his dinproportioned Ireamfiowers, make of him one of the very great naïve haitian painters’ (Hftitian Arts drawn from the book by Merie—Jos4 Nadal — Grdère “La Peinure HaXcienne).

As l4ichel Iqonnln (of the Monnin Art Gallery write it so well: In the Haiti of today, Pierre—Joseph Valcin is certainly one of the best naive paintere, the mist enjoyable”.
On December 15, 199., at the Cauerie des Lilas 171, Boulevard du Montparnasse 75006 Paris, to present Pierre—Joseph Valcin, the writer Jean—Marie Drot writes in”Peintres de is fête et du vaudou en Haiti”: After Alberto Quintanilla, the Peruvian, after Dimitar Kasa— kov, the Bulgarian, here comes ffnm this “lonely people of painters”, as AndrS MaJ.raux said it upon his return from his last trip to Haiti, an exhibit by Pierre—Joseph Valcin, the naYve hitian nainter. This exhibit wa held was held at thø Center for Cultural Action of Guadeloupe from February l’i to March 21, 1982 in Fort St. Charles, Baeseterre. To wake of this exhibit a living place of cre.tin, they have asked Pierre—Joseph Vaicin to imagine and create a very big fresco of which the subject is inspired t’y a poem by Rent Depestre.