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Toulouse • 1 artwork 1a286q
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Série de laques commencée en 2014 d'après les photos de mon frère qui vivait au bord de la Garonne.
Les feuilles - The leaves • 14 artworks r1653
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This collection is a turning point in my work. It speaks of simplicity and purity. I wanted to only [...]
This collection is a turning point in my work. It speaks of simplicity and purity. I wanted to only keep that which is essential. This is a hommage to the vegetal world, since each ephemeral leaf is forevermore immortalized in lacquer.
My leaves are an alarm, a call to the urgent struggle we all face against the threats to our environment, they are a plea to halt species extinction and preserve our ancestral savoir-faire.
My leaves are an alarm, a call to the urgent struggle we all face against the threats to our environment, they are a plea to halt species extinction and preserve our ancestral savoir-faire.
VienSun • 11 artworks 50m5w
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VienSun is a love poem to my adopted city, Vientiane. Her streets littered with disted and scarred [...]
VienSun is a love poem to my adopted city, Vientiane. Her streets littered with disted and scarred buildings, its electrical wires hanging like cobwebs, never cease to fascinate me. During my early morning walks through slumbering neighbourhoods or on my trips to and from the near-empty downtown bathed in leaden heat, I have often been able to marvel at her dawns and dusks as they transform the city-scape.
Back to Toronto • 10 artworks 2h2938
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"Back to Toronto" is an exhibit created in two times in 2016. The vegetal lacquer backgrounds were done [...]
"Back to Toronto" is an exhibit created in two times in 2016. The vegetal lacquer backgrounds were done in Laos and shown at the French Institute of Vientiane.
I then went back to Toronto after a six year absence with the s. In a Toronto studio I used gold leaf to complete the works with city street scenes. This is a vision of my beloved Canada.
The showing in January 2017 at the French Institute of Toronto on Spadina Avenue was the high point of this artistic adventure. I had closed the circle; it was time to move on.
I then went back to Toronto after a six year absence with the s. In a Toronto studio I used gold leaf to complete the works with city street scenes. This is a vision of my beloved Canada.
The showing in January 2017 at the French Institute of Toronto on Spadina Avenue was the high point of this artistic adventure. I had closed the circle; it was time to move on.
Lao series • 8 artworks 3a4o2z
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Inspired by Laos, my home since 2010
Posters-Limited editions • 17 artworks 5h6i2d
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Some of my lacquer paintings are printed in limited edition (35 prints each) individually signed posters, [...]
Some of my lacquer paintings are printed in limited edition (35 prints each) individually signed posters, professionally printed on Ilford Galerie prestige fine art paper
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Biography 4j3w1c
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) is a multidisciplinary artist who practices photography, painting, drawing and who specializes in lacquer.
At 20, the doors of the School of Decorative Arts in Paris opened wide in front of her. One day, she chatted with another student who told her about her exchange program with the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi where she had studied lacquer. She felt attracted by an idea: to go to another continent and study a mysterious painting technique...
After graduating in 1995, she went to India for six months to work at Mother Theresa's hospice. It was an initiatory journey. She took many pictures and made many drawings of women disfigured by life. She was 25 and she wasn't the same when she came back.
In Paris, she started working as an assistant stylist: the contrast with India couldn't be greater! It had nothing to do with her ion and she was not producing artistically. It was around this time that she met her husband and in 1999 they both left the advertising world and ended their freelance activities. They went on an overland trip from Paris to Hanoi. They drank from the world. On a crumpled piece of paper, she had the telephone number of a lacquerer in Hanoi.
As soon as she arrived, she began her apprenticeship. She discovered that by choosing hairspray, she imposed limits on herself that she had to overcome. Working with a precious material was an additional pleasure, because vegetable lacquer is alive, rare and almost eternal. She quickly started experimenting with lacquer in her first studio, taking lessons with different masters. She gradually stopped working with other mediums. After four years in Hanoi, they decided to move to Canada.
In Toronto, she set up a bilingual workshop with a Quebec artist. They wanted to create a space where they could work, give lessons and exhibit their works. Unfortunately, the energy needed to attract students and earn a living has encroached on their needs as artists. They then decided to start their life over in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, quiet and dusty.
In 2010, she slowly started producing again and had solo exhibitions in Vientiane, Toronto and Siem Reap, where she was invited in August 2018 to participate in the Asia Lacquer Exchange Program.
She was proud to be recognized by her peers and itted into this group of stubborn individualists who still use vegetable hairspray in a world where synthetics and quick results have the upper hand. It has acquired a rare know-how and it is the link of a thousand-year-old tradition.
She shares this world that touches her with her paintings that she patiently creates in her studio overlooking a small lake whose light changes from hour to hour. Asia has once again become her home and it is there that she develops her artistic career.
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) was born in Toulouse () in 1971. She lives and works in Vientiane in Laos. She has participated in many exhibitions. His work has been acquired by collectors around the world.
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- Date of birth : 1971
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
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Education 37306f
1991 - 1996 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs paris,
1989 - 1991 Atelier Met de Peninghen Paris,
Artist value certified 54195i
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Collective Expositions 2h502r
2019 Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Program At The Fine Arts University Of Shanghai Shanghai, China
2019 Woman In Laos, Fine Art Association Vientiane, Laos
2018 Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Program At Sofitel Angkor Siem Reap, Cambodia
2017 Travelling Expo Laos, Vietnam, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Australia, Laos
2009 Lovely Littles At The Art Gallery Of Ontario Art&Rentals Toronto, Canada
Solo Expositions 3r1u5u
2020 That Luang At Mdo Art Studio Vientiane, Laos
2018 Lacquer Painting And Limited Edition Posters At T'shoplai Gallery Vientiane, Laos
2017 Ik Noi Nung – A Little Bit More In Amantaka Gallery Luang Prabang, Canada
2017 Back To Toronto (Part 2) At The Alliance Française Toronto, ON, Canada
2016 Back To Toronto (Part 1) At The Institut Français Vientiane, Laos
2015 Partitions Animales At The Institut Français Vientiane, Laos
2012 Éphémères At I:cat Gallery Vientiane, Laos
2010 Toronto 1 At La Muse Art Studio Toronto, Canada
2005 Vinastuff At The Lacquer Tree Gallery Hanoi, Vietnam
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