Mathilde Moraeau Explained
| Mathilde Moreau |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast |
| Nationality: | Ivorian |
| Field: | Painter, Director of l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan |
| Training: | Ecole des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan |
Mathilde Moreau is an Ivorian painter.
Education and career
She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan where she obtained a DCSA (Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts) in 1986.[1]
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[2] on Chinese traditional painting.
Since 2006, she has been the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.
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 Shenzhen
- 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20110910124917/http://www.bicici.org/img/BiciciCatBAAscreen%20.pdf
- 16–31 August 1997 "Art Collection of the century from 1995 to 2000", Piotrkòw Trybunalski, Poland
- 19–29 September 1996 "Biennial of Contemporary African Art", Museum of African Art of IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop (With 05 works selected)
- 2 June – 9 July 1995 "Café des Artistes" in Lausanne, Switzerland
- 24 November – 8 December 1993 "Grafolies", Biennale d’Abidjan in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Solo exhibitions
- 13 March – 4 April 2004 Exhibition at the Cultural Center of Africa, Oslo, Norway
- 20 November – 2 December 2000 "Return to China" at French Cultural Center Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- January – March 2000 "African Art" in Beijing and Shanghai, China
- 20 November – 15 December 1997 "Africa to the Heart" Paris, France
Bibliography
- "Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika: 14 Gegenwartskünstler aus Côte d’Ivoire und Bénin", Author: Thomas Fillitz, Böhlau, 2002,, Product Dimensions: 25 x 17.9 x 3.4 cm,in German
Notes and References
- Web site: Qui est qui: Mathilde Moreau. dead. 16 April 2021. @bidj@n.net. 16 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210416131225/http://www.abidjan.net/qui/profil.asp?id=857.
- Web site: 中央美术学院 欢迎您！. https://web.archive.org/web/20101108065117/http://www.cafa.edu.cn/Default.htm. dead. 8 November 2010. 8 November 2010.
