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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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