Mathilde Moraeau

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Mathilde Moreau
Born (1958-03-02) 2 March 1958 (age 68)
EducationEcole des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan
Known forPainter, Director of l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan

Mathilde Moreau is an Ivorian painter.[1][2]

Education and career

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She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan where she obtained a DCSA (Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts) in 1986.[3]

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 and 2006.

Between 2003 and 2005 she was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing[4] on Chinese traditional painting.

Since 2006, she has been the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.[3]

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.[5]

Group exhibitions

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  • 24 November – 8 December 1993 "Grafolies", Biennale d’Abidjan in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
  • 2 June – 9 July 1995 "Café des Artistes" in Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 19–29 September 1996 "Biennial of Contemporary African Art", Museum of African Art of IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop (With 05 works selected)
  • 16–31 August 1997 "Art Collection of the century from 1995 to 2000", Piotrkòw Trybunalski, Poland
  • 5 June – 5 July 2008 Curated by Yacouba Konate at the headquarters of the BICICI the Plateau. The artists are; Abdoulaye Konate, 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 Souleymane [1]
  • 20 September – 20 November 2008 African Artists in Residence at the Institute of Fine Arts Shenzhen

Solo exhibitions

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  • 20 November – 15 December 1997 "Africa to the Heart" Paris, France
  • January – March 2000 "African Art" in Beijing and Shanghai, China
  • 20 November – 2 December 2000 "Return to China" at French Cultural Center Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • 13 March – 4 April 2004 Exhibition at the Cultural Center of Africa, Oslo, Norway

Bibliography

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  • "Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika: 14 Gegenwartskünstler aus Côte d’Ivoire und Bénin", Author: Thomas Fillitz, Böhlau, 2002, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., Product Dimensions: 25 x 17.9 x 3.4 cm, in German

References

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