Mathilde Moraeau

Mathilde Moraeau
Born	2 March 1958 (1958-03-02) (age 53) Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast
Nationality	Ivorian
Field	Painter, Director of l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan
Training	l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts d’Abidjan

Mathilde Moreau is an Ivorian painter.

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.

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 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]
• 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 Lausanne, Switzerland
• 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, Oslo, Norway
• 20.November - 02.December. 2000 "Return to China" at French Cultural Center in Abidjan
• January - March.2000 "African Art" in Beijing and Shanghai (PRChina)
• 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, ISBN 978-3205994022, Product Dimensions: 25 x 17.9 x 3.4 cm,in German

External links

• Article on Mathilde Moraeau entitled " Le Meilleur est à venir" in Vu Magazine, in French [2]
• 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 [3]

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Name	Moraeau, Mathilde
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Date of birth	2 March 1958
Place of birth	Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast
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