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Future holds much promise for the sculptors of Zimbabwe,
By David Fick "Author: Africa: Continent of Econ... (Overland Park, Kansas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Contemporary Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe: Context, Content and Form (Hardcover)
*****Celia Winter-Irving writes that Zimbabwe's stone sculpture is unique, not only because of its individual form and content, which is highly valued and acclaimed in the art centers of the world, but because it springs from the indigenous talents that lay hidden until the 1960's. How could such creativity and craftsmanship suddenly flower? What is the inspiration that guides the Shona, Chewa, Yao and Mbunda artists who have produced it? Who are the actual individuals who fashion stone that is unlike anything produced anywhere else in the world? Her book answers these fascinating questions and has become the standard work on the subject. She believes that contemporary African stone sculpture from Zimbabwe is perhaps the most important new art form to emerge from Africa in the 20th century.*****Although Zimbabwe stone sculpture is argued to be firmly located within a modernist discourse, its content and form are informed by traditional spiritual beliefs, myths, legends, oral history, customs, and rituals, which impart a new function and modernist aesthetic for creative expression in stone. Prestigious galleries around the world have been honored to exhibit the work of many of Zimbabwe's finest stone sculptors, such as the Paris Rodin Museum and the New York Museum of Modern Art. The larger pieces have been exhibited at the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town, the Kew Gardens in London, the Parlmengarten in Frankfurt, the Berlin and Hamburg Botanical Gardens, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Yorkshire, the Hannover Expo 2000, and the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. *****Celia Winter-Irving is the Writer and Documentalist in Residence at the Chapungu Sculpture Park. She is also the lead writer on art for the Zimbabwe Herald with her own column in the Herald Art and Leisure each Saturday. At the park she writes books on sculptors, produces the newsletter, compiles and writes essay/biographies on sculptors represented by Chapungu, and organizes media relations. A listing of her more recent books includes Lazarus Takawira (Lazarus Takawira June 2000), Anderson Mukomberanwa (Anderson Mukomberanwa June 2000), Tengenenge Art Sculpture and Painting (World Art Foundation, Eerbeek, The Netherlands, April 2001), and Soottie the Cat at Tengenenge (Tengenenge Pvt Ltd, April 2001). In 2002, she finished a book concerning the successful Zimbabwe sculptor, Agnes Nyanhongo.
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