Mozambique: Last chance to visit Butcheca’s exhibition in Maputo – ‘ Embracing the Chaos’

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Mozambique: Last chance to visit Butcheca’s exhibition in Maputo – ‘ Embracing the Chaos’

2:11 CAT | 29 Nov 2024

Image: Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo

This Friday is the last day to visit the exhibition “Abraçar o Caos” [Embracing the Chaos] by Butcheca. Camoes Cultural Centre, Maputo, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Don’t miss it!

“Abraçar o Caos” is Butcheca’s 15th solo exhibition, bringing together new works created during the current year.

Butcheca has been working in painting for around three decades, and has been reflecting on various current issues that concern him. According to the text written by the artist for this exhibition: “What appears to be a personal internal struggle becomes the evocation of a more universal reflection on the human condition, in the search for clarity and answers to the most diverse questions about the meaning of things.”

It is through unrealistic figuration that Butcheca seeks to respond to the concerns that haunt him in his daily life, in a systematic, comprehensive and exhaustive search for his essence.

Bio

Moisés Ernesto Matsinhe Mafuiane, known as Butcheca (b. 1978, Maputo) began to paint in the early 1990s. He became a member of the Núcleo de Arte in 1997.

Since 2001, he has held eleven solo exhibitions in Mozambique, Portugal and Japan, and participated in numerous group shows in Mozambique and abroad.

He benefited from the Goethe Institute’s Moving Africa programme, visiting and participating in the activities of the Dak’Art Contemporary Art Biennial, 2014.

He has painted murals in Mozambique and Portugal, and has taught painting at the French School Lycée Gustave Eiffel in Maputo since 2015.

His work has recently been featured on various digital platforms such as ARCO E-xhibition 2021, AFRICA EM FOCO, FNB Art Joburg Experience 2020 and ARCO Lisboa 2020 online.

He is represented in several public and private collections in Mozambique and abroad.

He is currently participating in the group exhibition African Identities-Chapter III, within the framework of the AKKA Project, Venice, Italy.

Prizes

Best Future Award (Hollard Seguros), within the scope of the Crescent Collection Exhibition 2020, Kulungwana (Maputo, Mozambique).

2nd Prize at the XIII edition of the TDM Biennial 2015: Contemporary Fine Arts – Possibilities and Contributions, with exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Maputo, Mozambique.