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Hector Charpentier is a painter from Martinique, born in 1950 in Fort-de-France.

Biography
His father, Hector Charpentier, was a teacher and his mother, Paule Charpentier, an art teacher. His mother founded of one of the first galleries in Martinique in Saint-Pierre. He became interested in painting at the age of 14, but it was only later, at 18, that he developed a preference for sculpture. Hector Charpentier painted his first canvas at the age of 16. He had his first exhibition at the Centre Municipal des Beaux Arts in Fort de France at the age of 19. From 1969 to 1975, he continued his studies at the Beaux Arts de Toulouse.

He describes himself as the founder of "figurabstraction", a combination of the figurative and the abstract.

He exhibits across the Caribbean.

Public Art in Martinique

 * La Renaissance, late 1970s; concrete, Saint Pierre;


 * Monument of the centenary of freedom, 1990, concrete, Schœlcher;


 * Le Nègre marron, 1998, bronze; Le Diamant;


 * Les bras de la Liberté, 2002, bronze; Le Prêcheur; La proclamation de l'abolition de l'esclavage, 2002, mixed technique; St Pierre.

France

 * Grand Palais in Paris (1997-1998)
 * Louvre Museum in Paris 2003
 * Prefecture of Martinique - Fort de France (1996)
 * Residence of the General Council - Chanteclerc (2003)

Elsewhere

 * Cuba - Museum of the Revolution (1994)
 * Santo Domingo - Museum of Modern Art (1994)
 * Switzerland - Geneva - International Book and Press Fair (1998)
 * Japan - Artec - Yokoama (1998)
 * Haiti - Museum of Haitian Art - CMAC (1990)
 * Trinidad - Carifesta (1995)
 * Tropiques-Atrium Fort de France (2019)