Mathilde Moraeau
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Mathilde Moreau is an Ivorian
painter
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She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan
where she obtained a DCSA (Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts).
From 20006, she is the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.
Between 2003-2005 she was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing on Chinese traditional painting.
In 1983-1994 she was a Professor of Fine Arts at Harris School of Modern in Abidjan. Then worked as a Professor of Painting at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan between 1994-2006.
She was one of the precursors of the Vohou-Vohou movement born at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts of Abidjan in the 1970s. Vohou.Vohou is the refusal of using very expensive painting materials. Other precursors were; Yusuf Bath , Kra N'Guessan , Théodore Koudougnon, Mathilde Moreau.
Côte d'Ivoire
The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
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She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan
Abidjan
Abidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...
where she obtained a DCSA (Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts).
From 20006, she is the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.
Between 2003-2005 she was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing on Chinese traditional painting.
In 1983-1994 she was a Professor of Fine Arts at Harris School of Modern in Abidjan. Then worked as a Professor of Painting at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan between 1994-2006.
She was one of the precursors of the Vohou-Vohou movement born at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts of Abidjan in the 1970s. Vohou.Vohou is the refusal of using very expensive painting materials. Other precursors were; Yusuf Bath , Kra N'Guessan , Théodore Koudougnon, Mathilde Moreau.
Group Exhibitions
- 20.September - 20.November.2008 African Artists in Residence at the Institute of Fine Arts Shenzen
- 5.June - 5.July 2008 Curated by Yacouba KonateYacouba Konaté- Biography :Yacouba Konaté is a curator, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast....
at the headquarters of the BICICI the Plateau. The artists are; Abdoulaye KonateAbdoulaye KonatéAbdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist. He was born in DIré and lives and works in Bamako. He is an artist of national fame who is now making a mark on the international scene. Konaté studied painting in Bamako and then Havana, Cuba.-Career:...
, Koffi Setordji, Ki Siriki, Michel Kodjo, Jean-Claude Henein, Mathilde Moreau , Youssouf Kourouma, Augustin Kassi, Jacoblen, Watt Kang, Mamery Ballo, Ange-Martial Shiner and Cherif SouleymaneChérif SouleymaneSoulegmane Cherif also known as Chérif Souleymane is a former Guinean footballer. He won the France Football African Footballer of the Year and the African Footballer of the Year in 1972 while playing with Hafia FC in Conakry. Souleymane is the current Technical Director of the Guinean Football...
http://www.bicici.org/img/BiciciCatBAAscreen%20.pdf - 16.August - 31.August.1997 "Art Collection of the century from 1995 to 2000", Piotrkòw Trybunalski, Poland
- 19. September - 29.September.1996 "Biennial of Contemporary African Art", Museum of African Art of IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop (With 05 works selected)
- 02.June - 09.July.1995 "Café des Artistes" in LausanneLausanneLausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... - 24.November - 08.December.1993 “Grafolies”, Biennale d’Abidjan in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Solo Exhibitions
- 13.March - 04.April.2004 Exhibition at the Cultural Center of Africa, OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... - 20.November - 02.December. 2000 "Return to China" at French Cultural Center in Abidjan
- January - March.2000 "African Art" in BeijingBeijingBeijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
and ShanghaiShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
(PRChina) - 20.November - 15.December.1997 "Africa to the Heart" ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
External links
- Article on Mathilde Moraeau entitled " Le Meilleur est à venir" in Vu Magazine, in French http://www.vumagzine.com/mathlide-moreau-le-meilleur-est-a-venir/
- Article by Mimi Errol entitled "Contemporary Art in Ivory Coast: The Origind of Adventure - Vohou Vohou" (L'art contemporain en Côte d'Ivoire : des origines à l'aventure vohou-vohou) in Africultures, in French http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=3105