| Mireille Dubois-vanhove |
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Born in Belguim (Braine-le-Chateau)1942
Artist ceramist and painting in watercolours
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| About the Artist |
Mireille Dubois-Vanhove is a Belgian artist who draw and paint from her early ages. After her accounting studies, she maried and moved to Congo where she lived during 30 years. There she opened a ceramic and paint workshop. She worked on high temperature enamel and watercolors "wet on wet". Through her ceramic and watercolors, which are all unique pieces, Mireille Dubois-Vanhove unveil the idyllic Africa scenary, showing the extrem poverty of those forgotten people, the look of children deprived from all and the courage of african women. Her work is heartbreaking and naturally marks the viewer. The whole work of Mireille Dubois-Vanhove convey an artistic signature that is easily identifiable with harmonizing shades of the african continent. Her approach is human. She touch hearts. Some say she translates with a lot of tender, children and adult who are overtaken by their own distress, others claims that her work is brilliant, rendered by few means, etc. All viewers who have been in contact with one of the works of Mireille Dubois-Vanhove have been marked as have been "Le Cri" from Munch. It's true that no body can stay insensitive facing the message carried through her work. We can feel the feeling's spirit and the experience richness from a voice choked or a laugh. The composition is tight, centered on a unique subject, straightforward. The watercolor choice is appropriate, with the immaculate bottom. We find subtlety, sensitivity from the african atmosphere in all her work. A poetic realism well rendered in light. Besides watercolor, Mireille Dubois-Vanhove also carves small figures perched on top of specially enameled plates. Back in Belgium, she created her workshop at Nimy and regularly exhibits in the region. Today, she lives and works in Belgium. Mireille Dubois-Vanhove is a Belgian artist who draw and paint from her early ages. After her accounting studies, she maried and moved to Congo where she lived during 30 years. There she opened a ceramic and paint workshop. She worked on high temperature enamel and watercolors "wet on wet". Through her ceramic and watercolors, which are all unique pieces, Mireille Dubois-Vanhove unveil the idyllic Africa scenary, showing the extrem poverty of those forgotten people, the look of children deprived from all and the courage of african women. Her work is heartbreaking and naturally marks the viewer. The whole work of Mireille Dubois-Vanhove convey an artistic signature that is easily identifiable with harmonizing shades of the african continent. Her approach is human. She touch hearts. Some say she translates with a lot of tender, children and adult who are overtaken by their own distress, others claims that her work is brilliant, rendered by few means, etc. All viewers who have been in contact with one of the works of Mireille Dubois-Vanhove have been marked as have been "Le Cri" from Munch. It's true that no body can stay insensitive facing the message carried through her work. We can feel the feeling's spirit and the experience richness from a voice choked or a laugh. The composition is tight, centered on a unique subject, straightforward. The watercolor choice is appropriate, with the immaculate bottom. We find subtlety, sensitivity from the african atmosphere in all her work. A poetic realism well rendered in light. Besides watercolor, Mireille Dubois-Vanhove also carves small figures perched on top of specially enameled plates. Back in Belgium, she created her workshop at Nimy and regularly exhibits in the region. Today, she lives and works in Belgium. |
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enfances saccagées
2008 watercolours and collages 21 x 36 cm |
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African children |
Quand je serai grand, je serai vivant
2008 watercolours and collages on paper 36 x 51 cm |
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African childrend and aids |
Un peu d'espoir
2008 Watercolour and collage 36 x 51 cm |
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aquarelle et collage |
espoir assassiné
2008 watercolour and collage 36 x 51 cm |
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Tous concernés
2009 watercolour and collage 51 X 65 CM |
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Poverty of children |
Sur le qui vive
2009 watercolour and collage 31 X 41 CM |
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Sur le qui vive |
Femmes, si fortes et si vulnérables
2009 Paper, watercolours and collages 36 X 51 cm |
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African womens |
Rien n'arrête les femmes
2009 Watercolour and collage 50 X 65 cm |
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Femmes africaines, si courageuses |
Stars in the eyes
2009 Paper, watercolours and collages 46 X 65 cm |
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all children have stars in eyes |
Give the live
2008 watercolour and collage 26 X 38 |
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Africa women and the live |
I m alive
2009 watercolour and collage 56 X 73 |
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Danse dans un village, car les enfants sont vivants |
Une même soif d'amour
2009 watercolour and collage 41 X 56 |
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Une même soif d'amour pour tous les enfants du monde |
Pour survivre
2009 watercolour and collage 36 X 51 cm |
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Africa, children and poverty |
Triste mamie
2009 watercolour and collage 41 X 56 |
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Africa women |
Together
2009 watercolour and collage 50 X 65 cm |
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In african, together with family |
Les femmes en Afrique, tous les risques
2009 watercolour and collage 46 X 61 cm |
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Women in Africa |
Camp de réfugiés
2004 Mixed media 36 X 45 cm |
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Camp de réfugiés en Afrique |
Maladies et violence en Afrique n'interessent personne
2009 aquarelle et collages 46 X 61 cm |
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En Afrique, les maladies et les guerres n'interessent personne |
Sida et désespoir
2006 Watercolors 21 X 36 |
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Aids and desespery |
Un monde sans
2009 Mixed media 65 X 50 cm |
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Un monde sans liberté, sans ... |
A world with
2009 Mixed media 50 X 65 cm |
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A world with love |
Je commence ma vie....
2010 Mixed media 46 X 61 cm |
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Aquarelle et collages |
immigrants
2010 Mixed media 46 X 61 cm |
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immigrants on the sea |
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| Education and biography |
Ceramic and watercolours workshop in Africa since 1970, in Belguim since 1991.Exhibitions each year at the French Cultural Center abd Lebrun Gallery Lubumbashi(Zaïre) since 1975 until 1991
After, many exhibitions in Belguim
November 2006 Gallery Pattenier Namur (Belgium)
Galerie Art et Miss - Paris |
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| Future shows |
Galerie Art et Miss - PARIS
Printemps des Arts Actuels - Bruxelles (Belgium
Galerie Livegalerie à Honfleur
Maison des Artistes Moscou
Galerie Art et Miss Paris
Opera gallery Budapest
Jma gallery Vienne |
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Website: www.mireille-dubois-vanhove.com |
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