Mozambique: Mapiko traditional dance joins list of Unesco intangible heritage
O País
Mozambican arts suffered another blow last night. Renowned visual artist, Victor Sousa, died of illness on Sunday (September 17), at about 11:00 pm, in his residence in Maputo. ‘O Mestre’ [The Master] leaves a widow and five children.
One of his landmark exhibitions took place in 2012, the year he turned 60 and was entitled “60”, held between June 27 and July 28, 2012, in the Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo.
According to Jorge Dias, artist and curator of the exhibition, Sousa had gathered works made between 2011 and 2012 in painting, ceramics and different printing techniques with various colour techniques.
The narrative about the woman and the family continued as a highlight in several exhibitions.
In 2015, for example, Victor Sousa exhibited “Synopsis Woman” at the National Museum of Art in Maputo. The exhibition was created to honour the Mozambican woman and was composed of paintings and sculptures by the painter, lithographer and ceramist.
Victor Sousa held his first individual exhibition of engraving and painting at the Núcleo de Arte, in 1982, in Maputo. Afterwards he had held other solo and group exhibitions in the country, Sweden, Angola, Portugal, Algeria and Zimbabwe, with exhibitions such as “EXPO’92” in Seville, Spain and EXPO’98 in Lisbon, Portugal.
In 2004 he participated in the Contemporary Art Expo Moçambique and the Lisbon Contemporary Art Fair, with the MUVART Gallery.
In 1991, he won the Premio 1º de Maio de Desenho by S.E.N.A.I, Brazil, he received an Honourable Mention of Nature Week and Prémio Presença, Presence Prize, both in Maputo and the painting prize at the National Museum of Art.
His work is present in several private collections, inside and outside the country, with special mention to the collections of the National Museum of Art, TDM, Instituto Camões, banking institutions andmobile phone companies’ headquarters, among other organisations.
Victor Sousa was born in the then city of Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, on July 17, 1952. He attended courses in Analytical and Advertising Design, Mechanical Design, Drawing and Painting, Ceramics and Engraving. He worked at António Inverno’s atelier (Painting and Serigraphy) and was an art teacher at the School of Visual Arts (ENAV) in Maputo.
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