Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO)
Choosing lacquer as a medium of expression means setting limits to be exceeded.
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) is a multidisciplinary artist who practices photography, painting, drawing and who specializes in lacquer.
At 20, the doors of the School of Decorative Arts in Paris opened wide in front of her. One day, she chatted with another student who told her about her exchange program with the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi where she had studied lacquer. She felt attracted by an idea: to go to another continent and study a mysterious painting technique...
After graduating in 1995, she went to India for six months to work at Mother Theresa's hospice. It was an initiatory journey. She took many pictures and made many drawings of women disfigured by life. She was 25 and she wasn't the same when she came back.
In Paris, she started working as an assistant stylist: the contrast with India couldn't be greater! It had nothing to do with her passion and she was not producing artistically. It was around this time that she met her husband and in 1999 they both left the advertising world and ended their freelance activities. They went on an overland trip from Paris to Hanoi. They drank from the world. On a crumpled piece of paper, she had the telephone number of a lacquerer in Hanoi.
As soon as she arrived, she began her apprenticeship. She discovered that by choosing hairspray, she imposed limits on herself that she had to overcome. Working with a precious material was an additional pleasure, because vegetable lacquer is alive, rare and almost eternal. She quickly started experimenting with lacquer in her first studio, taking lessons with different masters. She gradually stopped working with other mediums. After four years in Hanoi, they decided to move to Canada.
In Toronto, she set up a bilingual workshop with a Quebec artist. They wanted to create a space where they could work, give lessons and exhibit their works. Unfortunately, the energy needed to attract students and earn a living has encroached on their needs as artists. They then decided to start their life over in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, quiet and dusty.
In 2010, she slowly started producing again and had solo exhibitions in Vientiane, Toronto and Siem Reap, where she was invited in August 2018 to participate in the Asia Lacquer Exchange Program.
She was proud to be recognized by her peers and admitted into this group of stubborn individualists who still use vegetable hairspray in a world where synthetics and quick results have the upper hand. It has acquired a rare know-how and it is the link of a thousand-year-old tradition.
She shares this world that touches her with her paintings that she patiently creates in her studio overlooking a small lake whose light changes from hour to hour. Asia has once again become her home and it is there that she develops her artistic career.
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) was born in Toulouse (France) in 1971. She lives and works in Vientiane in Laos. She has participated in many exhibitions. His work has been acquired by collectors around the world.
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Les feuilles - The leaves • 14 artworks
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This collection is a turning point in my work. It speaks of simplicity and purity. I wanted to only[...]
This collection is a turning point in my work. It speaks of simplicity and purity. I wanted to only keep that which is essential. This is a hommage to the vegetal world, since each ephemeral leaf is forevermore immortalized in lacquer.
My leaves are an alarm, a call to the urgent struggle we all face against the threats to our environment, they are a plea to halt species extinction and preserve our ancestral savoir-faire.
My leaves are an alarm, a call to the urgent struggle we all face against the threats to our environment, they are a plea to halt species extinction and preserve our ancestral savoir-faire.
VienSun • 11 artworks
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VienSun is a love poem to my adopted city, Vientiane. Her streets littered with disjointed and scarred[...]
VienSun is a love poem to my adopted city, Vientiane. Her streets littered with disjointed and scarred buildings, its electrical wires hanging like cobwebs, never cease to fascinate me. During my early morning walks through slumbering neighbourhoods or on my trips to and from the near-empty downtown bathed in leaden heat, I have often been able to marvel at her dawns and dusks as they transform the city-scape.
Back to Toronto • 10 artworks
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"Back to Toronto" is an exhibit created in two times in 2016. The vegetal lacquer backgrounds were done[...]
"Back to Toronto" is an exhibit created in two times in 2016. The vegetal lacquer backgrounds were done in Laos and shown at the French Institute of Vientiane.
I then went back to Toronto after a six year absence with the panels. In a Toronto studio I used gold leaf to complete the works with city street scenes. This is a vision of my beloved Canada.
The showing in January 2017 at the French Institute of Toronto on Spadina Avenue was the high point of this artistic adventure. I had closed the circle; it was time to move on.
I then went back to Toronto after a six year absence with the panels. In a Toronto studio I used gold leaf to complete the works with city street scenes. This is a vision of my beloved Canada.
The showing in January 2017 at the French Institute of Toronto on Spadina Avenue was the high point of this artistic adventure. I had closed the circle; it was time to move on.
Lao series • 8 artworks
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Inspired by Laos, my home since 2010
Posters-Limited editions • 17 artworks
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Some of my lacquer paintings are printed in limited edition (35 prints each) individually signed posters,[...]
Some of my lacquer paintings are printed in limited edition (35 prints each) individually signed posters, professionally printed on Ilford Galerie prestige fine art paper
OUT OF SCHOOL- The impulse • 22 artworks
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When my classes are over, I take the brushes and use the students’ leftover oils to paint in total freedom[...]
When my classes are over, I take the brushes and use the students’ leftover oils to paint in total freedom and pleasure through sadness along with the longings born of this difficult period.
Blue Lao words flow with the compositions surging out from my imaginary world, forming poetry.
Blue Lao words flow with the compositions surging out from my imaginary world, forming poetry.
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Biography
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) is a multidisciplinary artist who practices photography, painting, drawing and who specializes in lacquer.
At 20, the doors of the School of Decorative Arts in Paris opened wide in front of her. One day, she chatted with another student who told her about her exchange program with the School of Fine Arts in Hanoi where she had studied lacquer. She felt attracted by an idea: to go to another continent and study a mysterious painting technique...
After graduating in 1995, she went to India for six months to work at Mother Theresa's hospice. It was an initiatory journey. She took many pictures and made many drawings of women disfigured by life. She was 25 and she wasn't the same when she came back.
In Paris, she started working as an assistant stylist: the contrast with India couldn't be greater! It had nothing to do with her passion and she was not producing artistically. It was around this time that she met her husband and in 1999 they both left the advertising world and ended their freelance activities. They went on an overland trip from Paris to Hanoi. They drank from the world. On a crumpled piece of paper, she had the telephone number of a lacquerer in Hanoi.
As soon as she arrived, she began her apprenticeship. She discovered that by choosing hairspray, she imposed limits on herself that she had to overcome. Working with a precious material was an additional pleasure, because vegetable lacquer is alive, rare and almost eternal. She quickly started experimenting with lacquer in her first studio, taking lessons with different masters. She gradually stopped working with other mediums. After four years in Hanoi, they decided to move to Canada.
In Toronto, she set up a bilingual workshop with a Quebec artist. They wanted to create a space where they could work, give lessons and exhibit their works. Unfortunately, the energy needed to attract students and earn a living has encroached on their needs as artists. They then decided to start their life over in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, quiet and dusty.
In 2010, she slowly started producing again and had solo exhibitions in Vientiane, Toronto and Siem Reap, where she was invited in August 2018 to participate in the Asia Lacquer Exchange Program.
She was proud to be recognized by her peers and admitted into this group of stubborn individualists who still use vegetable hairspray in a world where synthetics and quick results have the upper hand. It has acquired a rare know-how and it is the link of a thousand-year-old tradition.
She shares this world that touches her with her paintings that she patiently creates in her studio overlooking a small lake whose light changes from hour to hour. Asia has once again become her home and it is there that she develops her artistic career.
Marie-Dominique Boneu Hyman (MDO) was born in Toulouse (France) in 1971. She lives and works in Vientiane in Laos. She has participated in many exhibitions. His work has been acquired by collectors around the world.
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1971
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- Groups: Contemporary French Artists
Influences
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Education
1991 - 1996
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
paris,
France
1989 - 1991
Atelier Met de Peninghen
Paris,
France
Artist value certified
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Achievements
Collective Expositions
2019
Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Program At The Fine Arts University Of Shanghai
Shanghai,
China
2019
Woman In Laos, Fine Art Association
Vientiane,
Laos
2018
Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Program At Sofitel Angkor
Siem Reap,
Cambodia
2017
Travelling Expo
Laos, Vietnam, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Australia,
Laos
2009
Lovely Littles At The Art Gallery Of Ontario Art&Rentals
Toronto,
Canada
Solo Expositions
2020
That Luang At Mdo Art Studio
Vientiane,
Laos
2018
Lacquer Painting And Limited Edition Posters At T'shoplai Gallery
Vientiane,
Laos
2017
Ik Noi Nung – A Little Bit More In Amantaka Gallery
Luang Prabang,
Canada
2017
Back To Toronto (Part 2) At The Alliance Française
Toronto,
ON,
Canada
2016
Back To Toronto (Part 1) At The Institut Français
Vientiane,
Laos
2015
Partitions Animales At The Institut Français
Vientiane,
Laos
2012
Éphémères At I:cat Gallery
Vientiane,
Laos
2010
Toronto 1 At La Muse Art Studio
Toronto,
Canada
2005
Vinastuff At The Lacquer Tree Gallery
Hanoi,
Vietnam
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