Mathieu Ficheroux bij een kunstwerk, 1969

Matheus Josephus Lambertus (Mathieu) Ficheroux (22 April 1926 - 11 October 2003) was a Dutch artist, who worked as sculptor, glass painter, painter, draftsman, wall painter and installation artist.Mathieu Ficheroux; male / Netherlandish; sculptor, glass painter, painter, draftsman, wall painter, installation artist
at rkd.nl, 2015. He is considered among the foremost Dutch artist of the second part of the 20th century.Hans Walgenbach,
Mathieu Ficheroux (1926-2003)
" at hanswalgenbach.nl, May 16, 2012. Ficheroux is especially known for his 1960s "pink and brown paintings of objects of plastic and light reliefs (sleeping pieces), in which eroticism and alienation were important themes."

Biography

Ficheroux was educated at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (now

Willem de Kooning Academy The Willem de Kooning Academy ( nl, Willem de Kooning Academie) is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It was named after one of its most famous alumni, Dutch fine artist Willem de Kooning. Overview ...

) in Rotterdam from 1945 to 1949, where he studied at the advertising and publicity department. After graduation he was lecturer at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten from 1949 to 1953, where he taught

fashion photography Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studi ...

. As independent artist he started painting in 1955 and sculpting in 1960. His style of painting developed over the years: In the 1960s he made abstract expressionist paintings, in the 1970s "bad" paintings, and in the 1980s line paintings.MATHIEU FICHEROUX; maker, melancholicus, 10 juni tot en met 14 september 2008
at chabotmuseum.nl. Rotterdam, 29 June 2008. In 1969 he was awarded the

Hendrik Chabot Award The Hendrik Chabot Award (Dutch: ''Hendrik Chabot Prijs'') is an annual award for visual artists presented by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, section South Holland. The prize ceremony is in the city hall of Rotterdam, where the prize is given by T ...

. In the same year he took part of a sculpture exhibition at the

Twente University The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

with

Woody van Amen Wilhelmus Josephus (Woody) van Amen (Eindhoven August 26, 1936) is a Dutch sculptor, painter and collage artist. Education Van Amen studied at the Rotterdam Academy. His teachers included . From 1970 he taught at the same Academy. In 1959 he ...

, Jan van Munster and other. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam in 2008.

Work

The work of Ficheroux 's work is characterized by a carefully considered design and perfect execution, with elements of alienation, damage, and impair. One of his lines about his "bad" paintings was: "To complete a good work of art, you always need a little spoiling." For example, Mathieu Ficheroux designed a Rotterdam monument for Louis Davids; a carefully crafted 78-rpm record, with as dramatic accent, a piece has broken off. Ficheroux also designed the Anna Blaman-price for

Jules Deelder Jules Anton Deelder (24 November 1944 – 19 December 2019) was a Dutch poet, spoken word poet and writer. His poems cover topics such as life in the city of Rotterdam, drug use, and jazz. He was very passionate about the Dutch language and fea ...

in 1988. It consisted of pure white, pure silk shirt, with a perfect disfigurement of an ink stain, which was part of the object. In 1975 one of his most known works in a public place was revealed; a

mural A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' is a Spani ...

Multatuli Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin ''multa tulī'', "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel '' Max Havelaar'' (1860), which denounced the ...

on the Mauritsweg above the bookshop ''Woutertje Pieters,'' a character in Multatuli's work. The mural contained the quote by Multatuli: ''Van de maan af gezien zijn we allen even groot'' (Seen from the moon, we are all equally sized). After the original building was demolished in 1985, the mural was relocated in 1987 at its present location at the corner of the Mauritsweg and Van Oldebarneveltstraat. In the 1992-93 Ficheroux made large wall paintings in the former director offices in

Hotel New York ''Hotel New York'' is the fourth studio album recorded by the Dutch pop/rock singer Anouk and released on December 3, 2004, in the Netherlands. The album is named for the location where Anouk wrote all its songs: Hotel New York in Rotterdam. Deb ...

. In 1993 he also designed the sculpture ''Vergeten Bombardment'' (Forgotten bombardment) in memory of the bombing of Rotterdam West on 31 March 1943.

Gallery

File:Portret Multatuli (1975), Rotterdam by Mathieu Ficheroux 02.JPG, Portrait Multatuli (1975), Rotterdam File:Portret Multatuli (1975), Rotterdam by Mathieu Ficheroux 01.JPG, Portrait Multatuli (1975), Rotterdam File:Onthulling Louis Davids Monument in Rotterdam burgemeester Peper en Mathieu Fic, Bestanddeelnr 932-8157.jpg, Disclosure Louis Davids monument in Rotterdam, 1984 File:Rotterdam monument louis davids.jpg, Louis Davids monument in 2005 File:Rotterdam kunstwerk Louis Davids.jpg, Louis Davids monument (1984), detail File:Locatie van Mathieu Ficheroux's Louis Davids monument (1983), 2018.jpg, Location Louis Davids monument, 2018 File:Rotterdam kunstwerk vergeten bombardement.jpg, ''Forgotten bombardment'' (1993), Rotterdam.

Art works in public spaces

* 1975, Portret

, RotterdamJan van Adrichem, Jelle Bouwhuis, Mariette Dölle (2002).
Sculpture in Rotterdam
'' p. 84 * 1979, Cast iron

Thonet chair The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the 'bistro chair', it was designed by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. It is made using ...

s in Rotterdam city center * 1984, Monument Louis Davids, Rotterdam * 1991, Monumental design Poetry International, De Doelen, Rotterdam * 1993, Beeldspoor, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam * 1993, Monument 'het Vergeten Bombardement', Rotterdam

References

External links