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** Each Artwork is Copyright Sempé ! Yamilet Sempé was born in Cuba in 1970 (Naturalized American-French), she exiled to France in 1987, where she surrounded herself with renowned French artists. Her art is collected in countries such as Bahrain, Cuba, Spain, France, Italy and USA, just to name a few. She resides between Florida, USA and Paris, France. Sempé is an artist with several pictorial languages, the best known are abstract and geometric. One of her peculiarities is her ability to decompose the geometric by taking it to the abstract, always respecting the colors of her palette. She is one of the few female artists born in Cuba (exiled in France) that has these characteristics. Her overflowing imagination and her fast and sure eye lead her to visualize every second of the palpable and the mystical of everyday life, to capture it in her geometric and abstract work, where we see reflected both the figurative and the spiritual. Her abstract works are inspired by her visions, as dictated by “the hereafter.” Since childhood Sempé liked to draw nature, (she is a veterinary nurse), her love and passion for animals and plants always aroused her curiosity. But it was at the age of 46 that the artist decides to devote to painting, a passion that repressed for many years. Her first geometric work “Cardinal at my Window” (Private Collection USA) was the first signal that alerted the artist, the universe sent once more signals, until then ignored, because days after creating the work, a cardinal (mystic bird) perched on her window. Another example: the work of great significance is “Moon Dreams” (Private collection Bahrain). A figurative geometric work, where the artist paints a black cat looking at the moon, weeks later came a black cat, found at the edge of the sea, her beloved Omalé, who she considers “her protector.” This is the work of Sempé, a succession of signs, esoteric and mystical messages reflected in works such as: Invocation to Pandora, Divine Light, The key of Hecate, The Temple, to cite only some of them. Throughout the history of art we can find this mystical expression in some painters such as Hilma Af Klint, (founder of the group of the 5 esoteric women following the theosophical ideas of Mme. Blavatsky) …, Kandinsky and Mondrian are two other examples … as a common point with Sempé: geometry, abstraction and spirituality.