Biography

In 1992, he held his first major exhibition in Haiti in a large gallery in Petionville in the heights of Port au Prince. The entire exhibit was acquired by a collector. In June 2001, he traveled to France, invited by the Louvre Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, exhibited in Nevers, visited Giverny, the homeland of Monet, invited by the permanent secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, Mr. Arnaud d’Hauterives. In 2004, he retired to his native province, working in the fields and consolidating a development center, his main concern.

For Jean Baptiste Rosvelt, the forms are bent to the requirements of the often circular composition. The sometimes linear, sometimes aerial perspective is supported by a great mastery of color which he exploits as a solution when he finds himself confronted with problems of anatomical balance. The drawing is outlined to give volume, and the indirect light emphasizes this feeling of expectation that a painting by Jean Baptiste Rosvelt leaves, the strength of the unconscious.

A sensual painting, with erotic accents, which blends in the same voluptuous color the history of his country: voodoo, sexism, religion, history, life, death, betrayal, passion.