Christophe Didillon

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Christophe Didillon (born 1971 in Aurich, Germany) is an artist (acrylic paintings, collages, photos). He became member of PARADOX artist group and OMMA.

1 Accomplishments
2 Suicide Attempt
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Accomplishments

Mr Didillon was appointed as "Consultant of International Art" by the chairman of the Hua Cui Artists Community of Tianjin, Madame Gu Yingzhi.
He created paintings for Mikhail Gorbachev and Crown Princess Viktoria of Sweden.
He has had many single and group exhibitions in Germany and other countries.
He participated in "The Dragon of East and West", international art exchange projects between artists from Germany and China, with group exhibitions in different German and Chinese cities.
He had exhibitions at Nankai University Museum of Contemporary Art Tianjin and at Shandong Province Government, China.
He had a single exhibition at the Parliament of Hessen in the city of Wiesbaden, Germany.
The artist was admitted to the virtual gallery of German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He participated at the opening of "The Free Will – 20 Years Glasnost" art exhibition in Berlin and handed over his present (painting named “GLASNOST”) to Mr Gorbachev. Scholarship by the Otto-Flath-Foundation.
Further exhibitions in China, the United States and Greece are being prepared at Beijing, Shanghai, Weihai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and other cities in Southern China and Taiwan as good as Santa Barbara (USA) and Chania (Greece).
In May 2006 Didillon made his WALK OF FLAME, a pilgrimage from San Francisco to Hollywood, dedicating his pilgrimage to the actress Kirsten Dunst and to his grandfather Johannes Schumacher, who had been Prisoner of War in World War II in Russia, and escaped walking hundreds of miles home to his family in Germany.

[edit] Suicide Attempt

On February 1, 2007 Didillon threatened to kill himself with a samurai sword under the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to protest "against the silent repression of the meaning of human dignity out of the modern society life."^[1] Police overpowered him and saved his life.