Tchale Figueira

Tchalé Figueira (* 1953 in São Vicente ) is a Cape Verdean painter .

After years of wandering, which also took him to Holland, where he worked as a dock worker, he finally ended up in Switzerland. There he began to paint and attended the school for artistic design in Basel, where he lived between 1974 and 1985. Finally he returned to São Vicente. Like his brother Manuel Figueira , he set up his studio in the port of Mindelo , in the family's old house.

In addition to painting, he writes poetry and makes music in a group. Tchalé Figueira also sees the task of an artist to exercise social criticism and to take a stand on socio-political issues. He expresses this in the painting “The Crucified Woman”, with which he criticizes the “macho society” of Cape Verdes.

Tchalé Figueira has taken part in a number of exhibitions since 1985, among others in Lucerne, Basel, Paris, Lisbon, Zurich, Angola, Senegal, USA and in his home country Cape Verde.

Web links

CV in French, accessed February 8, 2013