Dhyaneswar Dausoa

NAME: Dhyaneswar DAUSOA

ART ACTIVITY:- Sculptor (wood, stone, plaster, cement and metal)

ART EDUCATION:- Self-taught and further studies in India. Training in stone carving under the guidance of Georges Pecqueur at his studio in France.

MAJOR GROUP SHOWS:- 'Salon des Artistes Mauriciens'. 2nd Triennial of New-Delhi, India – 1974. Exhibition of the 'Groupement Artistique Mauricien', First National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Mauritius. France/Mauritius Exhibition, Palais de Chaillot, Paris. International Art Exhibition, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Salon d'Automne, Paris. Salon de ICEI, Paris. Cultural Festival of ACCT, Loir et Cher, France. 'Salon du Printemps', Maison Alfort, France. 'Salon de la Société Internationale des Beaux-arts', Paris 'Deux Artistes deux Iles', ‘Espace Bonvin’, UNESCO,Paris. 'Salon de Mai', Mauritius. Artists' Forum, Club Med. National Exhibition of Sculpture, Mauritius. Art Action, Exhibition of ACA, Mauritius. National Open Air Sculpture Exhibition, - Chinese and Mauritian Art Exhibition. Art for Africa, Musée Africain et Océanien, Paris. National Art Exhibition,Mauritius. 'Salon de la Sculpture', Mauritius. International Exhibition of IAA, Seoul, South Korea. Biennale of Dakar, Senegal. 'Antipodes', Barbizon,France. National Exhibition of CEFEL, Mauritius. 'Festival International des Arts Plastiques', Maharès, Tunisia. Touch and Feel, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Mauritius. 'Rencontre avec l'Inde / Diaspora Indienne à Maurice', Mauritius. Beijing Art Expo, China. ‘Semaine des Arts’, ‘Centre Charles Baudelaire’, Mauritius. ‘Carrefour des Créateurs’, St. Denis, Réunion Island. ‘La Liberté’, Art Exhibition MBC, Mauritius. ‘L’Art pour la Paix’ LPT –Mauritius.

OTHER ACTIVTIES:- In charge for organizing the First MauritiusNational Art exhibition. Consultant, International Art Workshop (UNESCO/ACCT Program), Burkina Faso. Initiated the Mauritian Committee of IAA/UNESCO. Consultant, Regional Workshop for Craftsman on Woodcarving, Mauritius, ACCT Program. International Art Workshop, ACCT Program, Mauritius. International Workshop on Art Education, UNESCO Program, Nigeria. Case Study on the Introduction of Sculpture to Children with Social Adaptation Problems for UNESCO. Participated in the setting up of the project of Gandhi Square, Reunion Island. Participated in the Congress and General Meeting of the International Association of Art - IAA/UNESCO. Assigned by the Ministry of Culture to organise the National Exhibition of Sculpture, Mauritius. Assigned to organise the National Open Air Sculpture Exhibition, MGI, Mauritius. Vice President of the International Association of Art (IAA). Member of Jury, Cultural Competition on the occasion of the 'Jeux de la Francophonie', Morocco,Paris and Madagascar. Artistic Creativity to educators of the children village of the SOS Kinderdorf International, Mauritius. Member of the Technical Committee of the National Handicraft Promotion Agency. Member of the Board of the National Art Gallery (NAG), Mauritius. Guest of Honour, ‘Carrefour des Créateurs’, Reunion Island.

Has travelled in different African, Asian and European Countries.

Several works in collection in Mauritius and Abroad.

"Sculptures of my creation are in wood, stone and metal. Those in wood and stone are mostly carved in round and free standing, whereas those in metals are in assemblage with the techniques of hammering, welding and grinding. These materials are worked out with care and without any torture. In spite of being carved or assembled they show an impression of being sensibly modelled.

They are generally stylized, symbolic figurative forms situated between the conventional and the abstract. Movements are inspired from vegetation, nature and human activities. Some of them are elongated with vertical ascent, giving the expression of sublime spiritual attainment while others have volumes giving the feeling of liberation and expansion in the environment.

Art has an important role to play in human life and to serve certain social cause. Evidently it is a silent language which communicates with the spirit. Art doesn't belong to the creating artists alone but to the whole society."

Government medal and Scroll for contribution in Art on the occasion of the Tenth Independence Anniversary of Mauritius.

Laureate of the 'Société Internationale des Beaux Arts', Paris.

Special Award/Trophy - FIAP - Maharès, Tunisia.