Monique Mayère

Monique Mayère
Monique
Birth name	Monique Mayère
Born	1944 Rive-de-Gier
Nationality	French
Field	Sculpture, Painting
Works
Influenced by	Claude Monet, Charles Cordier, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Jacques Villeglé, Maurits Cornelis Escher, Matisse, Niki de Saint Phalle, Dimitri Parant, Thierry Ehrmann, Gary Lee Price

Monique Mayère, born in 1944, is a French sculptor and painter.

Biography

Oldest twin girl of a 8-children family with Henri,^[1] Monique was a nurse in the sixties. She also is a cousin of Philippe Bourguignon and Anne Mayère.^[2] As spouse of Jean-Claude Rodet, she had 3 children: Emmanuel (1968), Daniel (1969) and Bruno (1971). Monique co-founded a charismatic community "Le Soly" at Thurins in 1974. Then she worked in an interior architecture company "Cheminée décor" specialized in chimneys at Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne.^[3] In the eighties, Monique created an art gallery named Chantepierre in Nice. She sculpted statues and objects in different matters : woods, stones, plexiglas, resin and metals such as bronze, iron or gold. She also produced woodcut or lithography arts and sculpted on PVC for handicraft printmaking. During the following decade, she travelled sailing in Mediterranean Sea on a boat named Iris, travel writing and painting. In 2007, she has been saved of a shipwreck in Eritrea. In 2009, she gave her lithographic printing press to an art school of Grasse. She is militant with Jean-Luc Romero in the French NGO ADMD attached to the World Federation of Right to Die Societies and member of the French Riviera's CSA close to WWOOF.

Gallery

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  Lithography of a chirld with Marionette, 1990

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  Free brothers, 1990.

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  Daniel's head, 1988.

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  Naked bust, 1987.

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  Angel head in bronze, 1985.

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  Couple in pink granite, 1980s.

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  Couple of Sirens playing music (wood carving), 1979.

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  Aluminium's painting, 1970s.

Notes and references

	Arts portal
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1. ^ http://www.brico-civrieux.fr/
2. ^ (French) [1]
3. ^ http://www.cote-azur.com.fr/azur/adresses/arts/sculpteurs_et_statuaires/uhl_mayere_monique.htm

Internal links

• List of sculptors
• Minimalism

External links

Persondata
Name	Mayere, Monique
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Short description
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Rive-de-Gier
Date of death
Place of death