Biography
Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur
Sculptress
Born in Hué, Vietnam
Brass, marble, wood sculpture
Installations
Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur, a French Vietnamese, has a passion for Africa, where she lived in various countries before settling in Côte d'Ivoire and obtaining the Ivoirian nationality. She first devoted herself to sculpture (she met with Japanese sculptor Isamu Nogichi in Giorgio Angeli's workshop in Querceta, Italy).
Her meeting with painter Gerard Fromanger in 1985 proved decisive. Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur has since then pursued research on the mind, the sacred and symbolism in African culture.
During the trips she still makes across Africa, she creates ephemeral art installations, reorganizing special places in villages where she modifies the layout of objects or things and also in the heart of wilderness, or recently in forest environments.
The laureate for Africa in the art competition of Hanover 2000, Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur has achieved a monumental work representing the themes of the universal exhibition :« Man, Nature and technology »…..
In 2003, her artistic itinerary brings her for the fifth time in Japan. The Tokyo Park Hotel ask her to create works such as the monumental “Calao tree" (4 m hight, 10 m large), 800 original draws and several brasses, witnesses of the diversity of creation of this artist
«…Successfully mastering her initial abstract culture as a European artist, still present in her first marble and brass works, public orders for monuments, Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur has gradually elaborated the new poetics of wandering objects, whose magic powers as fetishes and cryptic or divinatory message she uses to produce her own symbolic language and mythology. »
- Alain Jouffroy, speaking about Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur
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