Inácio MATSINHE, 1945
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 nostalgic
violets and greens.
Matsinhe
enters the Decorative Arts School still 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 teaching
art, 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