Mateo Mornar

Matéo Mornar
Photographic portrait of Matéo Mornar (2010)
Born	Matéo Mornar (1946-12-20) 20 December 1946 (age 70) Split, Croatia
Nationality	French
Education	, ESAM Paris
Known for	Sculpture, architecture, design, jewellery
Notable work	Hymne à la vie Poisson fontaine Récréation Hippopotame Pégase

Matéo Mornar (born 20 December 1946 in Split, Croatia) is a French sculptor of contemporary art. He lives and works in the Principality of Monaco.

Born in Croatia in 1946, Matéo Mornar emigrated to France with his family at the age of 10. They settled in Paris. The young boy liked to spend time in the Louvre, especially in the sections dedicated to sculpture. At 18 he entered the (ESAM Paris) school of modern art, where he studied design, graphic design, interior decoration and sculpture techniques. He graduated amongst the top of his class and joined a branch of the Publicis group. He worked for 3 years dedicated to developing scale model which are displayed at trade fair and the moved on to work as a freelancer. For many years, he worked in the area of publishing, graphic creation and interior decoration. An assignment took him to the French Riviera in 1977 where he decided to settle.

At the end of the eighties, he envisioned and conceptualized his first sculptures after a meeting with the artist at Villefranche-sur-Mer.

In 1995, Matéo Mornar decided to devote himself entirely to sculpture and began to exhibit in the French Riviera (Cannes, Nice, Monaco...) his early works of bronze women.

In 1997, he opened a school of sculpture in Nice wishing to introduce to people the difficult art of sculpture and to inspire them.