Marie-Pascal Jean-Claude Garoute (Tiga)
born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on December 9th, 1935 has dedicated his life to art. In his own right, he is an art animator, a paint, a poet, a musician, an ergo therapist, and a ceramist.
Tiga believes that in order for man to understand the deep sense of creation, one's inner self must be united with everything that stimulates creativity.
He has develop a method known as "Artistic Rotation ".
For a very long time, he has experimented this method throughout Haiti. He has work at all levels with adults, children, adolescents, the mentally ill, the villagers, the educated and the illiterate. Through his method, he believes that one must have total freedom of expression, be in touch with the various technical support that simultaneously bring together human senses and human concept. He would use instruments such as drums, color paint, clay, rocks and other sensing elements of sight, touch, and feel.
In 1964, through his researches of the "VEVES" (symbols of spiritual invocation) he offered what was instilled in him as the voice of prudence.
He would say that man has to detach himself from conventional methods that has been taught to him throughout his education if he wants to remain a creator.
In Haiti the culture is always alive!
Tiga would always say " I found my art amid my people". When the art spirit has penetrated a nation, it's people are neither ignorant nor illiterate.
In 1966 this concept know as "Nouvelle Ecole" (the new school) was consecrated at Dakar. Senegal during the first world festival of Black Art.
1967 Tiga invited the then modern Haitian Artist to take the occidental art at a new level of consciousness.
1968 He founded in Port-au-Prince, a cultural center called Poto-Mitan to express the "Novelle Ecole".
1971 He had the first exhibition of total art in Petionville, Haiti.
He showed how man in order to find the profound sense of creation, has to be united with everything that stimulates creativity before he can accept his callings.
1972 "Poison Soleil" (Sun's Fish) a movement of experimenting popular art with nine other members in Petion-Ville, Haiti)
1973 "Soissons la Montagne" First attempt with Maud Robard in creating a cultural village with all the arts as basis of development.
1974 Saint Soleil show cased at the Haitian Art Museum with more than twenty members, to follow with many exhibits in the United States of America.
1976 Second meeting with Andre Malraux to then meet Jerzy Grotowski.
1983 He stayed in Denmark for the "Odin-Theatre" experiment.
1984 He stayed in California, USA with the Traditions program at Irvine University. He then stayed at Brewster,, Cape Cod, Massachusetts were he presented with Barbara Wallace: "Poeme a Point" (Poem with point) and work around the experiment of vocal drum.
1985 He returns to Haiti were he develop his own technique of "Soleil Brule" (Burn Sun).
1985 Exhibit at Doctor Simphard Bontemps in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1988 He opened the KAYTIGA cultural center at Bourdon Park, Haiti.
1989 Group Exhibit, Black and White, reuniting twenty three Haitian artist in the exhibit title "Tiga la Fleche" ( Tiga the Arrow)
1990 He participated in the abstract exhibit at the Pantheon National Museum (MUPANAH).
June 1990, he participated at the second festival of Caribbean film at Fort de France, Martinique, where he presented "l'oeil du Soleil" (the ...