Inácio
MATSINHE (1945)
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Inácio Matsinhe
was born in Maxixe, Mozambique in 1945. He is one
of the great names of today's Mozambican plastic arts.
Strongly connected
to his home country, his paintings and ceramics scream
with live and warm colours: reds, yellows and cobalt-blues
and sometimes nostalic violets and greens.
Matsinhe
enters the Decorative Arts School very young, by the
age of 17 and by 1976 he is awarded the first of two
scholarships from the prestigious Gulbenkian Foundation.
This opportunity to study abroad was absolutely influential
in his career. Inácio Matsinhe first studied
ceramics at the Pietro Vannucci Fine Arts Academy
in Italy. In 1977 he attended the Polytechnic Institute
Sir John Cass - School of Arts in London. That same
year, Matsinhe opens his atelier in Alfama, Lisbon
where, besides formation, he offers other artists
an exhibiton space.
Matsinhe has exhibited
regularly since the 60's all over the world from Portugal
and Spain to Great Britain (African Center- London)
or the United States (World Surrealist Exibition -
Chicago). His work is represented in several important
national and international private collections but
perhaps his most emblematic piece is the gigantic
tile panel placed on one of the most important arteries
in Lisbon.
source: "Cerâmica
e Escultura" (2002) - C.Bajouca ; "Arte
98" (1998) - F.I. do Carmo
Selected
Exhibitions
Inácio
Matsinhe GALLERY
