Moisés Ernesto Matsinhe Mafuiane, conhecido por Butcheca, nasceu a 23 de Abril de 1978, em Maputo/Moçambique.
Tem participado em várias exposições em diferentes espaços culturais da cidade de Maputo, nomeadamente, na Galeria do Instituto Camões, na Fortaleza de Maputo, no Núcleo de Arte, no Museu Galeria Chissano e no CCFM – Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, onde realizou em 2009 a Exposição Individual Chauffeur – O Motorista do Butcheca.
Recentemente, visitou pela segunda vez Portugal, onde inaugurou a Exposição Universidade da Rua (2010), na Art in Park/Spazio Dual by IMV, em Lisboa, também apresentada na Galeria Geraldes da Silva, no Porto.
Ruínas do Passado é a sua última exposição, inaugurada em Agosto de 2011 no CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, em Maputo.
Moisés Ernesto Matsinhe Mafuiane, known as Butcheca, was born on the 23rd of April in 1978, in Maputo/Mozambique.
He started to be interested in arts very soon, since when he was a child started to build his own toys as the little wire carts that he use to build until today. Later, in 1994, his sensibility to drawing took him to an advertising agency where he could deepen his knowledge on grafic design.
In 2002, he did his first Individual Exhibition with the title A Menina de Verde, at CCFM – Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano.
He visited Portugal in 2003, where he lived for some time and made his second Individual, O Meu Beco, at Museu Jorge Vieira, in Beja. In the next year, he presented Mercado Informal, at Fortaleza de Maputo.
He has been participating in several exhibitions in different cultural places in Maputo such as Galeria do Instituto Camões, Fortaleza de Maputo, Núcleo de Arte, Museu Galeria Chissano and CCFM – Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, where he presented Chauffeur – O Motorista do Butcheca, in 2009.
Recently, visited Portugal for the second time and presented the exhibition Universidade da Rua (2010), in Art in Park/Spazio Dual by IMV, in Lisbon, and in Geraldes da Silva Gallery, in Porto.
Ruínas do Passado is his last exhibition shown at CCFM - Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, in Maputo, in August 2011.